Ol’ Yellow Eyes

2019

Installation and daily ritual; song and textile dyeing, ochre-painted walls, infrared heating lamps, silk, tree mulch, solar-reactive dyes, and unfired clay vessels containing powered acid dyes, soda ash, salt, and fluorescent pigments.

The character of ol’ Yellow Eyes draws freely from Appalachian folklore as well as histories of color science - from Medieval women's dyers guilds, to early chemists who converted coal tar into rainbows and saw “eyes” blooming from their chromatography test papers.

*dress for performance designed/created by Leilani Trowell-DeTurk

Better As A Chorus, with Shimmer, Rotterdam & Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, NL