9 Ground
Colours
9
Colours
Ground Colours is a exploration into the plant
biodiversity found in the landscape of my child-
hood home, Hong Kong. Using a limited selection
of plants, I experiment with making natural dyes
derived from only this organic material.
I focused on a small area of the Victoria Peak district central to the city of Hong Kong where his- torically, British colonisers first ‘discovered’ and documented many plant species. I select four plants (detailed below), all with disparate origins and uses.
Using various fabric dyeing techniques (different mordants, pre-treatments, dye-mixes) I extract and extend the palette possible from these four plants, dyeing sections of a second hand cotton bedsheet.
The fabric sections are re-assembled to form an abstracted ‘map’, and re-installed on Peak Road where these plants were found.
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Second-hand cotton bedsheet, foraged plant pigments, thread
70cm x 175cm
process documentation below
I focused on a small area of the Victoria Peak district central to the city of Hong Kong where his- torically, British colonisers first ‘discovered’ and documented many plant species. I select four plants (detailed below), all with disparate origins and uses.
Using various fabric dyeing techniques (different mordants, pre-treatments, dye-mixes) I extract and extend the palette possible from these four plants, dyeing sections of a second hand cotton bedsheet.
The fabric sections are re-assembled to form an abstracted ‘map’, and re-installed on Peak Road where these plants were found.
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Second-hand cotton bedsheet, foraged plant pigments, thread
70cm x 175cm
process documentation below