Three colors of fabric dye was frozen into large spheres and hung from trees to melt on folded cottons. As the spheres melted and rotated, they dripped dyed the fabric in interesting and unexpected ways.

The dye from the ice speres eventually started to blend with the surrounding speres creating new and original colors and textures which could be used as inspiration for future textile prints.

As the ice dye speres melted, some pieces fell and added saturated areas to the organic and natural printing process.

The photographs from the project were very inspiring as images themselves.

The organic forms and colors were amazing to watch form.

The ice spheres eventually fell from their string and broke into peices, which of themselves looked like jewels or sculptures that could be inspiration for jewelry or textural prints, or stand alone as amazing photographs.

Image of the process.

After opening the fabrics and looking at the designs created, it was very interesting and pleasing to see how effortlessly nature and passivity had created such a beautiful print.

Purhaps organic always refers to organic, some of the images from this project reminded me of rock formations or the inside of geodes forming. 

Even the earth underfoot became a source of beautiful color. 

Some of the cotton fabrics unwrapped and drying in the woods. The prints turned out bold and lively and led me to investigating other forms of niave, primitive, and bold print imagery in my MA work at the Royal College of Art.