residency; Joya: arte + ecologia, Spain
A landscape dictates.
From a position of relative ignorance; a new landscape must be explored, an attempt to know it better; walk in it pick it up, organise it. The alter ego develops, living idyllically for a short while in the landscape.
Lime plaster fragment with layered paint. Seed pod/Cone. Chalky hair ball/turd. Bitter almonds. Root system. Pink Rock.
The flowers of the thorny Aliaga plant (Genista Scorpius), prolific on this arid alpine desert, bare a yellow dye. Once picked they are boiled in water, later, yarn is added to the pot. Wood ash mixed with water, left to settle, makes lye; by dipping the dyed yarn in the lye the colour is fixed and intensified.
Alpine desert herbarium
