Annie Hoffman

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gqKlKniB85c https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gqKlKniB85c "Indigo's Journey" Site-Specific  Indigo-dyed fabric installed on trees and bushes at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve "Grant’s Villa, the indigo plantation owned by Governor James Grant, was a 1,450-acre tract located approximately six miles northwest of St. Augustine. The tract was bounded east and south by the Guana River, west by the North River, and north by vacant land. Beginning in 1768, Grant’s enslaved Africans cleared six-hundred acres for indigo cultivation. Indigo weed was processed into dye at six sets of vats spread out among the fields. Structures at the plantation included two dwellings and a kitchen for the overseer and his assistants, stables for horses and other plantation work animals, a blacksmith shop, a large barn and indigo house, fowl and pigeon coops, and houses for the enslaved black men and women. In his memorial to the East F...

  PROCESS                    I thrifted four pairs of jeans of different sizes and colors,  and then cut out the pockets of each pair.  I then took seems that I cut out from the jeans to create  the straps for the plant holders and sewed them onto the tops of the pockets  I cut out some of the butterfly patterns on one of the pairs of jeans   I then glued the butterfly cut-outs onto some of the pockets  I tried to improvise with other parts of the jeans that weren't the pockets to see what  other shapes I could make  I also played around with some fabric and cut out shapes to add little designs. I also cut out some of the tags on the jeans and glued them on the pockets. FINAL OUTCOME Reflection Statement     I developed this idea throughout the semester with the initial idea of changing the function of used clothing items into something new. At first, I was brainstorming id...

Hand-drawn, digital, 18x42