As I explored textile design, I nurtured an idea that could change the role of plants in our spaces – a fabric plants could live in.
Imagine being able to drape soil over any surface, and just grow plants out of little more than air. Imagine using plants and their roots as structural components, helping to water-proof and regulate a building, or maybe even hold it up. Imagine not just a new form of living building, but an affordable, practical, and flexible membrane between our needs and the needs of plants.
It just might change the world.
So I thought I'd try my hand at making it.
For this first attempt, I let my assumptions about what plants needed guide the process. It had harakeke supports, beeswax backing, banana skins for “the fertilizer”, and it was all felted together with strong wool, because of how underused it is in Aotearoa.
It was an exciting artefact for a scattered six weeks of work, and I got to weave with raw banana skins, but it barely scratched the surface of what it could be.
I knew I had to re-visit the idea.
And so I developed the second iteration.
7th of December 2021
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Through Their Eyes
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How to Mend with Stabbing
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Queer Aesthetics
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Joy in Weave
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Living Buildings
Then and Now
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Artefacts
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Willow the Wisp
Woven Soil - First Iteration