Embedded Summer Bloom, Woad 1

An abundance of summer blooms remember a story of place through the color they produce. In her newest series, Embedded Summer Bloom, Gregory is thinking about place and landscape. This series uses Black Eyed Susan, Woad, Indigo, Sappanwood and Marigold grown and gathered from her dye garden and dyed on silk and cotton.Gregory situates her studio practice at the intersection of textile and architecture. If the nature of architecture is fixed and permanent, then the opposite would be a textile, collapsible and movable. Further consideration would show more common links than differences. Both mediums define space, create shelter and allow privacy; a textile however, has the advantage of flexibility. It is a semi two-dimensional plane that has the ability to fold, drape, move and change to its surroundings.Her work uses cloth construction as a fundamental center, a place to start from and move back to. With a background in weaving, Gregory sees herself as a builder — drawing clear connecti