…this afternoon coming right from the airport to the museum for a few days of communal rug crocheting to get it up to size for the Monday night opening, meanwhile out in the courtyard, the Domestic Integrity garden that we planted last June has been sprawling out, with an errant squash tendril occasionally grabbing a ..
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…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening on November 9th, featuring an installation of Domestic Integrities, and today was my first chance to see the gallery interior under construction, whose slick design will provide the perfect foil for the huge hand-crocheted rug of discarded textiles, clothes and linens upon which locals (like students from the ..
…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 ..
…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 ..
…this evening started with me baking 24 loaves of spelt bread, out of the oven in time to be ceremoniously placed on a prominent table in the central atrium to cool under a white linen while I presented a talk about the new project series, at the conclusion of which the bread was processed out ..
….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 ..
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