Feb 092012
Medicine dyes...

For the past couple of months I have been dyeing. During my trip to China in the summer, I noticed that many of the plants that are traditionally used as a dyestuff are also used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.  The first dye plants that I noticed were familiar to me since they are traditionally used [...]

  • February 9, 2012
  • October 19, 2011
Taking my woodcuts to market

Since getting back to Beijing from Yunnan I have been working on a woodcut in cherry wood depiciting how to make Dongba paper. When it was finished, I printed the image onto the Dongba paper that I had made in the village of WuMu under the guidance of the Dongba masters. The woodcut shows a [...]

  • September 26, 2011