A sprinkling of very small tattoos covers Christian Cowan’s fingers and arms: a pale stag, a walrus, a sewing needle and the term “intimacy,” so faintly scrawled that it is hardly legible. That great ink is a convey to. “I’m an introvert,” Mr. Cowan claimed over lunch of vegetarian rigatoni […]
Lets
In Bog Etudes, textile artist Moira Bateman lets landscapes leave marks on fabric
At Variety + Material Gallery, you recognize what’s lacking from the material draped from the ceiling and hung on the walls just as a lot as the substance itself. The very long pieces of silk, which artist Moira Bateman has left to steep in bogs, are thick with sediment and […]
The Renaissance Lets Its Hair Down
Human hair has been the matter of a great number of cultural tangles above the hundreds of years. The protein filament has been incorporated in definitions of the civilized and the savage, of the modest and the vain, of the chaste and the sensual, of the orderly and the anarchic. […]