…which has a 6′ hole in the middle to accommodate the beginning of the rug we made at Mildred’s Lane this summer, is now up to 12′ in diameter back in LA, where local friends have contributed clothes to the crocheting effort – and now it is going in a box headed to MoMA where ..
Tag : Domestic Integrities
…are suddenly on my mind – perhaps inspired by the 95 year old Abruzzian basket-maker we met as part of Domestic Integrities research in Italy – and seeming like the answer to everything, slowly filling the house in all shapes and sizes, for a variety of purposes – from yarn collections to fresh produce in the ..
…named Fernando Marcantonio, aged 95, residing in a remote small Abruzzian village learned how to make baskets from his father and grandfather when he was young – something that they did by necessity, to contain everything that needed containing at home (ricotta, figs, olives, grain…) – but then he entered into the family’s farming life – went to ..
…consumed most of this very hot day in this cool moist rocky valley stream (found after a three hour drive the other day in search of the perfect place to bring our 80 sheeps-worth of filthy but gorgeous just shorn raw wool for washing al fresco, which proved difficult during these semi-drought conditions of no rainfall ..
…of Mauro Di Rico have been grazing here at Pollinaria this season, and with the prices that he can get for their wool way down, he has offered it all to us, in the service of making the Abruzzian ring of the Domestic Integrity Field rug (started in Budapest, then London, and a few days ago at the ..
….got it’s auspicious start yesterday here at Mildred’s Lane – where I have returned for the weekend after an inspiring visit two years ago – to kick of the American edition of Domestic Integrities, which will expand as it travels the continent, exhibited from place to place (first up MoMA in September, The Hammer Museum ..
…this steamy hot morning with Annie Novak (of Growing Chefs and Eagle Street Rooftop Farm) and the youthful energetic Williamsburg gardening squad from Roberta’s Garden – is comprised of a 10′ diameter circular mounded planting bed of medicinals, herbals, edibles, and plants for pollinators along with locally scavenged branches and boulders from McEnroe Organic Farm ..
…this evening after 24 hours checking in on the homefront, and now headed ‘back east’ as they refer to it here ‘out west’ to New York City where I’ll be planting a big round wild edible medicinal herbal pollinator attractor garden (with plants and dirt from McEnroe Organic Farm and the amazing Annie Novak of ..
…or Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics on my first day in London-town at the Hayward Gallery – where I am excited to see our new bright white canvas geodesic dome HQ nicely positioned over the pixelated layout of stacked pallets forming a complex conversation pit which I had sketched up weeks ago, expertly installed ..
…is first continental rug in the series of crocheted cast-off clothes and linens that will travel from show to show, city to city around the continent for years to come, continually expanding, collectively crocheted as it is exhibited – today at Blood Mountain Foundation in Budpest, next week at the Hayward Gallery in London, then ..
…of old clothes from local friends is a new test at home (in shades of brown and a bit of orange for the brown with orange kitchen) with a new loose knotted technique that makes it super thick and cushy and cozy on bare feet, preparing for the new series of Domestic Integrity Field projects ..
…in a gallery space at UNC Greenboro where piles of cast-off clothes are slowly being transformed into a rainbow-colorful rug, braided with the help of students (each making their own personal braid which can be finished and absorbed into the spiral rug when they leave) being nourished with my homemade soup of locally sourced produce ..
…begins today as I arrive to their glass Gatewood Gallery where a mountain of old clothes, fabrics, towels, and sheets have been donated and collected for me in advance of my arrival – so after much thought about this new long-term collective traveling rug-making activity, later to be used as a stage/field/platform/lounge upon which local ..
…are two inexplicable piles of fabrics I’ve had sitting around here for years from past projects – and today they become the start of a second braided rug, this one responding to the ‘cave’ lower level of the house – all of greens and greys, of the gunite and poured concrete, s..
…is the homemade honey operation of Tulio who we visited this morning – a first possible collaborator in our as yet somewhat undefined but clearer by the day spring project – at his suburban Pescara residence located on the land where his father and grandfather cultivated the land, and raised cows, where he as a ..
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