Basswood and Pair view 1

The Mere Essence of Material: Basswood and Pair

Installation
Basswood bark, hemp twine, birch panels, peeled, retted, delaminated, stripped, sorted, plant-stained and dyed
Photo: Rik Sferra

Basswood and Pair detail 1

Reduction Inks and Stains

Oh, gifted basswood tree bark, hours of meditation while delaminating your retted layers. An entire cloth of bark, stripped and sorted into hair-thin ribbon filaments, by section, by length, by color, draped on clotheslines to dry. Cooking extractions from the garden into dyes, reduction inks, and stains. Resurrected indigo from India, homegrown indigo from the yard, ice baths for aqua and green. Quebracho Red, madder, and iron from Ceci, coreopsis and weld and marigold. R and D on a new palette for the next decade. All twisted for safekeeping. 18 months of brain healing from amnesia due to COVID.

Basswood and Pair detail 2
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Tracy Krumm is a 2017 fiscal year recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.