Recent project: Cartographic Memory Jacket. Cropped, asymmetric. It came out like the lovechild of Carhartt and Vivienne Westwood, which I do not mind. Handmade, improvised, canvas, with laced-up pirate cuffs, a ruffly linen collar, X theme on back and shoulder; garment dyed after I finished making it.
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Starting a new canvas piece, and one of the helen-made challenges is guessing how it’s going to look when I eventually overdye it. These colors don’t work as is, and I’ve chosen a final color that I hope will unify the complete object. I’ll be spending untold hours working on this, then possibly ruining it at the last step. I figure if potters can live this way so can I!
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