Video of Breathtaking Installation by Artist Soo Sunny Park

I just saw this video, and had to share it here on the blog because it is so gorgeous and uplifting.  Mixed media artist Soo Sunny Park has created "Unwoven Light," a wonderful, light-filled, other-worldly installation made from sections of chain link material embedded by hand with thousands of individual scale-like pieces of plexiglass covered in dichroic film.  Park's work will be on view at Rice University's Rice Gallery through August 30, and I wish so hard that I could go see it in person!  Any readers who are in Texas, go experience this magic!




Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light from Walley Films on Vimeo.

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Informative Video on Low Water Immersion Dyeing

I have been doing a fair amount of fiber reactive dyeing recently, and today while trolling YouTube for random video tutorials on the subject, I came across one that quite nicely answers a question I didn't even know I had been meaning to ask.  The question, which I realized I had actually been wondering about ever since I started researching low-water immersion dyeing, is: When, exactly, should you add the soda ash fixative to the dye bath, and what will be the result of adding it at various specific points? 

It turns out someone else was also wondering about this - Glenda Hopp of http://SoManyColors.net has put together a video in which she explores the effects that can be achieved by adding your soda ash in various ways.  I like her no-nonsense approach to dyeing and also to making videos!