A WOVEN WORLD CONVERSATION WITH JESSIE RACK, THE NATURAL HISTORY INSTITUTE, FEBRUARY 17

in A Woven World / Art & Science

August 2021, Counterpoint Press

A Woven World: Making and Unmaking our Histories Through Science and Art



Alison Hawthorne Deming has built her long career on using poetry and prose to communicate about science and natural world. In her newest book, A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress, Deming explores the beauty and fragility of human making, and what it can tell us about our own natural histories. For whether we are dressmakers, fishermen, or writers, our culture is deeply interwoven with environment.

Join Alison and NHI Program Director Jessie Rack in a wide-ranging webinar conversation about how science and art can work together to effect change, and about the importance of knowing where we came from.

ON LITERARY HUB, “THE SARDINE DRESS”

in Counterpoint Press / Fashion / Nonfiction

An excerpt from A WOVEN WORLD, this chapter was inspired by the magnificent Yves Saint Laurent “sardine dress” exhibited at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

“Made from black silk crepe, its surface is covered with an imbrication of black and pewter beads, the fish scale motif created with blue, gray, black, brown, silver, and opalescent gelatin sequins. The colors are so subtle that they bleed into one shimmer like the disappearing light a herring casts as it darts through the water.”

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