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Caravanserai
An artist lighting her way through dark times by relearning forgotten art practices and natural ways.
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I’ve been deeply buried under a mountain of research for the revision of my book on art technology of the Islamic Golden Age, but alongside deciphering manuscripts I have continued the work on the piece that was the subject of Receiving Colour, keeping an eye out for dye sources even as winter deepened.
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