Thursday 27 October 2011

midweek in NSCAD extended studies [Halifax]


as usual
there are bundles to be opened
these have seaweed in them
and are clamped with found shells


a student brought in this box
of treasures


late morning
we walked to Point Pleasant 
to dip cloth into the seawater
[earlier ideas of trying that closer to the Port
had been abandoned
due to oily slicks
and copper arsenate treated wharf posts]

oops


noticed this after the baptisms
shall be extra thorough in the boiling department


one of my samples from today


more delicious bundles


and above [and two below] some very fine
student samples
folks are clearly paying attention in class :)



the blue bits in the image above
are prints from the little stalks
that remain after the evil invasive seeds
from Japanese knotweed [Polygonum cuspidatum]
have flown off to wreak havoc in the whirled

15 comments:

  1. just great. like that box of coppa.
    and the finished pieces. beach, not so great but surely great dye results

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  2. Nice, nice, very nice. I especially like the blue bits from the nasty knotweed!

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  3. India these are simply beautiful bundles asking to be beaded and stitched...that box of copper stuff was magic. Peace, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart

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  4. i see the seashell made a resist! how delightful

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  5. There's some evidence that invasive weeds might be useful for some newer diseases. Knotweed, for instance, is being used with some success at treating Lyme disease, a relatively recent and problem disease here in the Northeast US. However, I don't feel kindly to the weed taking over the river banks and roadsides. Reminds me of we humans!

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  6. Love your pictures, these are great!

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  7. Your sample is so beautiful and the student pieces have turned out well too. Interesting to read Valerianna's comment about Knotweed and Lyme Disease.

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  8. sad about the beach. more on knotweed: gin petty reports that before it reaches human height, harvest it for lovely paper.
    the bundles+seawater=amazing.

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  9. Oh, how beautiful! You go to the best places.

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  10. OOOH to beautiful. so much fun to be had.

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  11. OOh to beautiful so much fun to be had

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  12. Really beautiful stuff. So much variety

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  13. Amazing patterns of nature. Incredible colours. X

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