After New Orleans our schedule determined that we would go to New Mexico through Marfa and El Paso and from there up to Albuquerque, Santa Fe and El Rito. Given that we were supposed to be in El Rito in time to start the workshops for the Adobe USA 2009 conference we had to decide to shorten the route. After Dallas and Fort Worth we went north towards Santa Fe.
So, we are now in El Rito and have already started the two workshops that we are suppose to instruct. One of the workshops will be directly related to the Songline: it will be the construction of the word must. The second workshop is a colaborative work with Alexis Elton and is also related to the Songline (but without the use of words): it will consist in building a 5 feet (or 1.5 m) tall sphere out of straw, jute and earth that will have embedded grass seeds near the surface.
In the next few days we'll be be posting images of the development of both workshops. So here are some images of the rammed earth workshop:
And some images of the second workshop, being the first image a preview of the object and the remaining images being the first procedures of the process: cutting and knitting the jute:
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