Les Lavandière bleu

Late night laundry, blue hands  
Mixing chemistry in the studio late at night
A kind of unpleasant ammonia smell of the chemicals
Pressing and squeezing the chemistry through the fabrics



Hanging laundry in the dark.

 Rising wet fabrics in the sea.

 Running the fabric through the washing machine

 anxiously looking at the weather.
anxiously looking at the tide
anxiously looking at the time





Breathing


Double dyeing. 
Double dying 
Die Dye Die 
Video and prints made this week on chemical beach.

Les Lavandiere Bleu from Lindsay Duncanson on Vimeo.
Dyeing today with M:40 Arvsynd.  on Suicide records . Sweden.

 Mr Wales has sent this  Doom and Sludge   >>

 A perfect combination  for dyeing and laundry duties 

The velvet gave off a heavy ammonia smell during dying and turned the dye mixture to red, a little like the red/brown ammonia. Unsure whats going on there. suspect is the pretreatment for dye. Need to look into it and hope it doesn't affect the print. Some kind of reaction has already occurred.


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