#cyanoupdates

[pumpkinpaix]

my professor invited me to thanksgiving dinner because I’m not going home and so I’m making macarons bc this seems like a reasonable event to make an effort right

#cyanoupdates #baking #I’ve been successful before……. so I hope I’m successful now lmao

[pumpkinpaix]

I am processing nettle to do various fiber craft experiments with and you may notice the terrible stock pot situation which resulted in me setting a towel on fire briefly but hey. I have successfully made nettle cordage. The difference in color is dependent on how much I scraped and cleaned the fiber before use!

Unfortunately the journey is far from over and I expect I shall be in nettle hell for weeks to come

Other nettle projects include spinning, papermaking, dyeing (root and leaf) and eating. I have already eaten it but I think the season is wrong. Not much taste only texture. anyways! Good times and also suffering

#but I voluntarily wanted to do this I’m so excited about nettle as a plant tbh #art #nettle #fiber crafts #cordage #fiber art #textiles #my art #mine #cyanoupdates #I would like to one day do a performance piece? art experience??? of recreating the stipulations in the fairy tale #where you must gather the nettle by hand #dance upon it barefoot #card and spin the fiber and then weave it into shirts #all while remaining silent #not all of this I think I would stop once I got to spinning #but I would like to try it #to understand the suffering #you know? #embodiment something something

[pumpkinpaix]

library school is an unethical scam and I am 100% serious about that

#this program was god awful and I don’t even think it was particularly unique in its shiftiness #so! #cyanide #the library profession is also a related scam #I love libraries and I am engaged in extreme violent hatred for the ways in which they manifest #biting and maiming and biting #upset gurgling intensifies #cyanoupdates #brought to you by: my graduation portfolio which is so absurdly badly designed as to be insulting #aagagagshhhfhfhfhf #*shittiness but it’s too late to go back and edit that tag so

[pumpkinpaix]

Having a bit of a time right now but I have learned how to make mantou :)

#sob sob idk man I wish I were not mentally ill #mantou #cyanoupdates #food

[pumpkinpaix]

put jingyeast on the vent to keep him toasty and xuxu doesn’t know how to share girl there’s literally so much grate left for you why are you like this

#cyanoupdates #cyan sourdough adventures #xuxu

[pumpkinpaix]

AAAAAAAA I borrowed an egg from my neighbors to make cookies earlier in the week bc I was out and had already started the dough and I gave them some of the cookies in return and they!!! Gave me a whole loaf of bread!!!!!!!! I found it outside my door with my dish today!!!!!!!!! LOVE IS REAL 😭😭😭

#I’m so. waaaahhh #cyanoupdates #equipment #love is stored in the bread #humans #😖😖😖

[pumpkinpaix]

Back at it again lads. Milkweed this time :)

#papermaking #my art #natural fibers #milkweed #foraging #cyanoupdates

[pumpkinpaix]

hand beating the mulberry fiber and picking out the largest impurities :’)

#papermaking #natural fibers #mulberry #my art #cyanoupdates #foraging

[pumpkinpaix]

This is me working on the final version of this piece and it is literally bigger than me and I am having Difficulties

#calligraphy #tain bo cuailnge #my art #cyanoupdates #I’m so close to finishing finals guys

[pumpkinpaix]

sewed some loki-themed endbands today :^)

In case anyone is curious, you can get a freeform color block effect by sewing a French-style endband. The German bead in front endband is the pattern you typically see that’s the two color repeating stripes.

#yes I do feel very silly and clever thank u #loki #cyanoupdates #my art #bookbinding #endbands

[pumpkinpaix]

cooking 4 fibers at once bc I’m losing my mind (willow, dogbane, primrose, nettle)

#papermaking #nettle has been my fucking white whale this semester #stg I’ve already cooked it like 5 hours and it STILL isn’t ready #cyanoupdates

[pumpkinpaix]

FHEJSKDKDJD the horrifying moment you realize the manuscript letters you’re working on are NOT in fact from the 1800s but from the 1600s SCREAM

functionally it’s not really different I just feel more anxiety now lmaooooooo

#once I adjust it’s fine I’ve worked on shit from the 14 and 1500s too but I KNEW when I started #this is what I get for not reading the included informational packets #cyanoupdates #rare books #book conservation

[pumpkinpaix]

Foraged some pokeberries for an art experiment

might have walked directly into poison ivy or a bug nest but ✌🏼

#natural dye #cyanoupdates #pokeberry #sometimes art is suffering I guess

[pumpkinpaix]

sanding spine liners and pressing some partially skeletonized leaves I found today :’)

#how am I going to get a job. #cyanoupdates #my art #bookbinding

[pumpkinpaix]

ok today has been an ordeal and it’s past midnight but I’m still gonna have tea and some mooncake >:C

#cyanoupdates #I deserve it!!!!

[pumpkinpaix]

I have my graduation meeting in 15 min and I feel sick lol. I’m going to cry I can feel it and it’s going to be so fucking embarrassing I hate this program I hate this field for what it purports to sell!!!!

#cyanoupdates #cyan vs academia #library school