Saturday, January 3, 2026

Nature Study in Horizontal Stripes 1

I've had a weaving idea percolating in the back of my brain for a couple of years now. But with 2025 pretty much dedicated to house repairs, reconstruction, and remodeling, manifesting that idea has been on hold. But the much anticipated end of the above activities is in sight, when I can at last utilize the room under construction. I'm very much looking forward to organizing that room to make it useful again. 

This nature study is step one. I'm making a collection of photographs that feature bands of color from the sky with visual texture from the tree branches. From there I'll explore weave patterns inspired by those textures. 

These are all sunrises. 








2 comments:

Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...

What an interesting idea Leigh!

My favourite time of sunrise/sunset is when the sky turns a shade of blue-green that only appears for maybe a minute.

Leigh said...

TB, I think I can only recall one time where I saw green in a sunrise. I will have to keep an eye out for it.

I'd like to start to focus on what I'm thinking of as permaculture weaving. I guess by that I mean using nature as the source of inspiration, especially color and patterns. It will hopefully keep me out of trouble for awhile anyway!