Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer
Pine Needle Basket & Storytelling
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When: 1-5 pm, Oct 20th
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Where: Low, 20 min from Wakefield
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Suggested Donation: $35- 55
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Join Us To:
Deepen into relationship with plants through eco-printing and natural dyeing techniques.
Explore some embodied ways of being in reciprocity with plants.
Be with plants in different ways of knowing (thinking, intuition, sensing and feeling) and explore being in communication with them.
Collaborate with plants in the creation of art and beauty.
The natural dye process will be covered including:
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Cloth and paper preparation
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How to make and use mordants
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Selecting and harvesting plants
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Dyeing process
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Safety
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Creative process
 As much as the land paints us, We paint the land. It wants our hands and our bare toes. Don’t be fooled into withdrawing. Sweet berries are longing to be plucked And spread through our libation. The ground is asking to be disturbed by our digging for roots, So its gape can swallow new seeds. When you harvest the willow, It grows strait for baskets. When you eat the salmon berry shoots, It grows bushy and full of fruit. ~ Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer |
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The Facilitator
Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer
Sofia has been collaborating with plants in her artistic practice, for 6 years. Also coming through in her work is her apprenticeship to wild plants and the practice of wild tending, which aims to interact with wild plants in a way that promotes the health of individuals and ecosystem.
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Sofia has followed a winding path through academic science, her own artistic practice, deep nature connection immersion, primitive/ancestral skills and many forms of soul-work.
