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Helen Liu
H e l e n L i u
WEARABLES


Work in progress:
Ideas emerging out of the desire to use materials that are readily available and usually defined as "WASTE"
Non-recyclable silver plastic bags collected from Starbuck coffee shops
Wood saved from a burn pile
Excess wool that might have been composted or left to be eaten by moths
DRESS
Sketch #1
Feb. 2023
Wool, sourced from Swallow Haven Farm
Pleasant Hill, Oregon
homegrown indigo dye
Starbuck's waste plastic bags
collected in Eugene, Oregon
spalted maple salvaged from a burn pile Springfield, Oregon
art-school-leftover oil colors
sewing thread


Pink dye from foraged yellow lichen, Xanthoria parietina
Pigment extraction process
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