De las plantas a la lana, transformaciones de la materia desde un laboratorio de tintorería natural

Abstract

From plants to wool, transformations of matter from a natural dyeing laboratory is a project of investigation, creation and experimentation around the approach to the manual work of the wool and the natural dyes, making it a transdisciplinary project that include different disciplines like plastic and visual arts, botanic, chemistry and crafts. During the laboratory process different pieces were created in engraving, botanical print, felt and loom, the documentation of the process of natural dye was meticulously documented in a notebook in which the descriptions of plants were written, its flowers, roots, bark to its leaves and seeds, the different samples of fibers dyed during the process were also attached, which allowed to see more clearly the color change that occurs as a result of the modification of the pH with different minerals such as potassium alum, sodium bicarbonate and iron sulfate that took place during cooking. The project was accompanied by visits to artisan workshops in Boyacá offering to the laboratory an artisan look at the people who carry and preserve the work of the wool, at the same time the tours made to get the plants needed for dyeing were mediated by observation and the modes of relationship that can mediate from the visual arts with places such as marketplaces and urban gardens, and with other living subjects such as plants and sheeps. Finally, the work unfolded in the congregation of an energetic quartet crossed by animal, vegetable, mineral and human energies that through energy, life and magic managed to consolidate this laboratory as the work of art itself.