
Neither Fish Nor Fowl
The origins of “pato” in Queer Boricua lexicon.
The origins of “pato” in Queer Boricua lexicon.
The Nomadic Pigment Lab cultivates pigment and dye exchanges with artists from around the world. The authors visited Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this fall to investigate the cultural meaning of the logwood tree.
For its first destination the Nomadic Pigment Lab travels to La Barbacoa, Dominican Republic to collaborate with artist and botanical enthusiast Eliazar Ortiz, working with natural pigments to create a unique language of sigils.
Residents of the San Mateo and Chícharo neighborhoods in Santurce, Puerto Rico recall gallitos, a long forgotten neighborhood game in which opponents tie strings to the hard seeds of the algarroba fruit and take turns smashing each other’s gallito.
Residents of the San Antón neighborhood in Carolina, Puerto Rico create oracles with botanical inks on behalf of loved ones who introduced them to the world of plants.
For our last workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, we made cordage with local cattail leaves and plantain bark––hands-on exercises that were accompanied by a selection of spoken word readings on the history of weaving and text.
Medically-managed birthing practices in Trinidad and Tobago are bound to the country’s colonial history. A contemporary resurgence of home births attended by midwives marks an important period in contemporary health care in the country.
The third workshop of the Rewilding Borikén series, “Fotorevelado con anamú”, examines the art of making film developers with local plants and deepens our knowledge of silver’s role in analogue photography.
The second workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Fermentos con Frutas y Hortalizas” went beyond the basics of fermentation to examine how ecological successions permeate life from the forest to your gut.
The first workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Chromatic Affects” details natural dyeing techniques and how to make watercolors with local mineral pigments.
An exploration of locally sourced, plant-based, health care among Dominican women living in Puerto Rico.
Confined to a 9×10 foot bedroom in Ottawa, an artist creates reflects on the visible and invisible connectivity between the material and ephemeral.