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Rowland
Ricketts, III, Untitled Noren Partition
2006
Rowland
Ricketts, III, an American-born artist, spent many years
in Japan’s Tokushima area, renowned for its indigo
dye. He acquired his skills in dyeing by working on
an indigo farm for a year and serving an apprenticeship
to a master indigo dyer. This practical experience informs
Ricketts’ philosophy. “Using gathered and
cultivated plants as dyes I transfer their color to
cloth with…dyeing techniques honed over centuries.
The colors obtained are enriched by each plant’s
historical, cultural and physical substance as well
as by …connections…to all who ever worked
within these traditions…I strive to present the
viewer with a color so rich that they see beyond the
dyed material to examine all that lies within a color’s
substance.” Here noren (cloth partitions)
add to the continuum of this history.
About
the Artist
Warp:
hemp. Weft: hemp.
Stenciled paste resist, indigo dyed
Courtesy of the artist
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