Soggy Aesthetics
A workshop with water
Mawignack Preserve, 52 Snake Road, Catskill, NY 12414
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Part of the Inhabiting Landscape Workshop Series, created by Leslie Ruckman in partnership with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, the Greene Land Trust, and Scenic Hudson.
Join multi-disciplinary designer and researcher, Leslie Ruckman, for a walking tour of the Mawignack Preserve followed by a hands-on workshop fabric dyeing with carefully harvested knotweed.
In Soggy Aesthetics, we will explore the ways in which water sculpts the terroir of Mawignack Preserve.
Water’s presence in a landscape is ephemeral, always shifting, always on the move, seen and unseen. A walking tour will mix storytelling and sensory exercises to attune our awareness to the presence of water in this landscape.
The tour will be followed by a hands on workshop, where water from the creek and knotweed carefully harvested on site, will be combined to create a natural dye bath. Participants will be asked to bring items made of natural fibers (cotton, linen, hemp, wool, etc.) they would like to dye.
