Before I made my way to the studio, I made the very chilly climb to my favorite herb store here in KC, Phoenix Herb Company. The wind was at my back.
It was a wonderful afternoon in the studio with Clare and Janet.
Janet and I worked on a grant application for a project together. It's such a grueling process for us artistic types, but our musician cohort is also a mathematician! Bonus. Plus, he strummed away at his guitar while we worked and told stories...Janet's stories always win. Yesterday I learned that she saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967. Wow.
So it was a day of multi-tasking (what day isn't?). And, sadly, we didn't get photographs taken, but we will next Friday.
Clare was boiling hibiscus into a syrup, and pulverizing alfalfa in the kitchen while we plugged away at numbers, bios, photos, and hammered out conceptual themes.
We did discuss which processes to use with different herbs. The Safflower will have to be boiled as well, for example. Other herbs and plants will have to ferment, like indigo. And then others will be pulverized, placed in a small amount of cool water, and then set in the window sill to transfer the pigment. I'll tell you everything, but right now, we have hibiscus pigment evaporating as much water off as possible, and I'm enjoying the soggy, less than red flower bits in my green tea.
Happy Weekending,
Christel
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