17.11.2014
gros plan d'une empreinte végétale de feuille d'érable, réalisée par l'éco-artiste plasticienne textile mapie des vignes

imprint. technique

I discovered this technique during a workshop given by Fabienne Dorsman-Rey, directly linked to the work of the Australian artist India Flint.
Previously, there had been this exhibition, of the magazine BLOOM n°20-teinture by Lidewij Edelkoort, at the Fondation Écureuil in Toulouse. The work of India Flint was part of it.

The technique consists in putting leaves or plants on a natural fabric (silk, wool, cotton, linen…), plunging it in a plant bath and revealing it after 3 weeks.
The results are unique.

I practice the imprint, as a real dialogue with the plant : I communicate, ask permission, thank … as a “meditation”, being myself in peace, to allow the transfer of energy from the plant to the support.

STUDIO

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It’s a “job”, but I’m so close to nature, it’s always very enjoyable !

CREATIONS

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And I always have a real joy when I unroll the bundles (the rolled fabrics prepared for the bath) and discover these wonders.

DETAILS OF IMPRINTS

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I use, in priority, second hand fabrics (except for my Vert Soi workshops), plants already on the ground or recovered from a florist. I also make prints on all kinds of paper (except for my Vert Soi workshops).

 

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mapie des vignes, an eco-artist and textile designer, lives and works in Toulouse and elsewhere. She was born in 1964. After a life as a fashion and textile designer, she stopped her boutique-workshop in 2014 to devote herself to her artistic practice and position herself as a textile eco-artist. Using the plant imprint technique, she develops poetic and sensitive work in tune with the natural world in which she lives. Her work is part of a profoundly ecological approach, which seeks to bring about an ethical and spiritual shift in the relationship between man and nature.