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Vancouver Draw Down Challenge goes green this year!
The Vancouver DrawDown Challenge has happened for a few years now across the city- and this year, the organizers wanted to go green… So Tiki Mulvihill and I put our […]
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Engish Ivy as erosion control: an eco-alchemists modern tale
In 2oo9 I worked with Stanley Park Ecology Society on a challenge; what to do with the massive amount of english ivy that comes out of Stanley Park from invasive […]
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flax for linen: what’s old is new again
I think, unless I am mistaken this is my very first post about the flax projects unfolding this year. We have had a plot growing since late April/Early May at […]
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eARThand gleaners society
I thought it was time to mention… we gave birth to a non-profit this spring! How have I not mentioned this before? Oddly- if I count back I could even […]
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The beauty of my community
Bear with me, this may get a bit gushy but I feel the need to rave about the people I find around me. I think it is the act of […]
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BioNetting Promo Page…
Ok, this is pure simple self promotion at this point but I don’t get Robin Laurence, the Georgia Straight’s art critic to my little live work space everyday either, so […]
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erosion control ivy bio-netting is installed!
We had an incredible couple of clear days weather-wise (with rain on either side) for working out on the slope in Stanley Park where we installed the bionetting made over […]
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Land Art; Mont-Saint-Hilaire Quebec 2013
It had been 24 years since I was in Quebec, a lifetime ago really. I must confess to a certain amount of unease regarding my trip; a small kernel of […]
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Flax Sit and Spin Social
we are approaching the countdown ladies and gentlemen. A full season of tilling, weeding, sowing, weeding, watering, weeding, watering and harvesting. then processing! flax into gold. I get it now. […]
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considering the slow clothing movement…
I find myself on this sunny mid November day caught between doing the administrative details of wrapping up the Aberthau flax project and just really wanting to knit and spin. […]
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Aberthau flax=food+fibre video
Happy to make my first post of 2014 the video documentation from 2013′s first garden year at Aberthau. Happily, the garden will be going again this year with more flax […]
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Urban Weaver Studio in 2013- a video report!
Martin Borden, our amazing in-house documentary maker has done it again- summing up a full years worth of studio activities in a 4 minute video that gives a taste of […]
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my quest for clothing independence
I have had this little challenge with myself for a while now, and this week I feel like I made some progress. As I have mentioned before, I would like […]
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weaving technique tester’s needed…
So, this winter has had me mostly holed up with my head down working on writing my first book, Common Threads: weaving community through collaborative eco-art. I have 6 weeks […]
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2014 fibre research
Originally posted on MOPARRC:If you are reading any environmental posts you have likely noticed there is a lot of talk about the crash of the Monarch butterfly population last…
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Terroir: Urban Cloth Project coming soon
While I get ready for planting seeds and have planning meetings with various project partners for this year’s research and community project, I figured I should make it all ‘feel […]
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The quest for instructions…
My friend Robin Ripley, a sculptor showed me this object she picked up the other day at a yard sale- I think it was a yard sale. She was intrigued […]
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textiles in Canada…
I heard a new term last night… textile exiles. It is apparently what the graduating textile class at Capilano University have taken to calling themselves as they finished off what […]
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May Planting
Prepping gardens seems to be the main thing in my life right now- partially so I can have something to eat I have grown myself later in the summer and […]
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Common Threads in pre-sales!
Well, it is almost done. I have written a book on my community engaged environmental art practice. The content includes philosophical musings on why the work is important, many interviews […]
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