Sandy de Lissovoy

Muslin, dyes from Palo de Campeche and organic indigo, rope, local rocks.

Welded aluminum tube, rod, and plate, muslin with indigo, walnut and logwood dyes,
acrylic, rocks.


Polytemporal Textures highlights the layers of time that are embedded in it, like layers of rock in a cliff face: I walked at different times in specific places outside and in protected wilderness, to make ephemeral installations, to gather inspiration and to gather some of the materials for dyeing; I let textiles soak for varying lengths of times in natural dyes; I fabricated work for changeable installations; I traveled with the work to emphasize this interweaving of time and place.

The works in Polytemporal Textures are changeable, lightweight, and responsive. These qualities are necessary for resilience, and we need resilience in these times. For too many humans, the conditions of transience and migration are painfully forced upon them. All of us are transient on planet earth. This exhibition is a testament to moving material lightly across continents, taking textiles and poles out of luggage and expanding them into temporary pieces of art.

I conceived of these lightweight works while hiking in the High Sierra of the Western U.S. and in the Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern U.S. I made works with changeable form, using the language of tent poles—collapsible, expandable, impermanent. I carried the fabric with me into the mountains, I expand them into constructions in the gallery, I let the fabric flow like  topography.

Photographer: Aleks Slotta

Muslin, Canvas, dyes from Palo de Campeche and Quebracho Moreno, acrylic paint, string.

Cotton, dyes, from Walnut, Mulberry, and Indigo, thread.
21” x 48”