Journal

Field notes from Dali.

Longer reads on the craft, the town, and the people behind every piece.

From the workshop · May 2026
A Vat of Blue
Blue is a slow color — a vat that breathes, and a pair of hands the indigo has grown into.
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On the road · May 2026
Market Day
Cloth like a cut-up sky, and the one place the vat decides for itself.
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On the road · June 2026
The Rain Is Slow
A jade-belt cloud, rain you can't see falling, Debussy in the dark by Erhai.
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The people · June 2026
A Pair of Hands
A woman who has tied indigo since girlhood, and the decades under her callus.
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