Taleamor Plant Research
2019 | Taleamor Park | La Porte, IN
Experiments during a artist residency fellowship at Taleamor Park making paper using of local praire plants. Processing plants involved soaking, peeling, cutting down, cooking in an alkaline woodash solution, sheet formation, pressing, and drying.
Soaking corn stalk leaves
Peeling the outer bark to gather the inner green bark
Pulling sheets of commongrass
Pressing stack of pulled sheets