Art in the Kitchen: Julia Child's Vinaigrette
We love to grow the gorgeous Julia Child’s roses in the garden with their licorice scent. We also enjoy and recommend her timeless and simple vinaigrette.
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Active , Roses , Recipes , Julia Child , Colors , Art in the Kitchen , Gardening , Home Garden Studio , Living Sculpture , Nature , Nourishment Rossana Martinez February 15, 2025
Studying Clouds and Sky
Night sky from the studio window while weaving…
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Clouds , Gardening , Home Garden Studio , Homemade , Movement , Nature , Observation , Rigid Heddle Loom , Rooftop Garden , Running , Sculpture , Seasons , Senses , Sky , Sustainable art practice , Telar , Textile , Trees , Warp & Weft , Weaving , Yarn , Natural Materials Rossana Martinez February 13, 2025
One Thread, One Seed at a Time
For the warp, I’m using a light green tweed yarn that adds dimension. The “floating” flecks of color makes it more tactile.
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Warp & Weft , Yarn , Textile , Active , Art , Aster , Bees , False Indigo , Sustainable art practice , Studio Visit , Seeds , Seasons , Sculpture , Rigid Heddle Loom , Pollinators , Plants , Observation , Nature , Native Plants , Living Sculpture , Land Restoration , Home Garden Studio , Homemade , Gardening , Handmade , Colors , Birds , Herbs , Microgreens , Windowsill Garden Rossana Martinez January 31, 2025
Time in the Winter Studio
Some of the benefits of waking up early are the quiet and looking out the kitchen’s window to notice the moon at dawn. It’s a sublime time of the day.
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Art , Gardening , Handmade , Home Garden Studio , Nature , Observation , Plants , Pollinators , Rigid Heddle Loom , Seeds , Sky , Sustainable art practice , Telar , Textile , Weaving , Yarn , Sculpture , Senses , Music , Seasons , Studio Visit Rossana Martinez January 25, 2025
Zinnia Garden
While there’s a lot of snow outside, the loom is starting to look like summer.
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Early Rising
It’s always a gift to get up early to enjoy the quiet before a busy day begins.
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Active , Body , Clouds , Colors , Gardening , Handmade , Home Garden Studio , Movement , Nature , Sky , Textile , Weaving , Rigid Heddle Loom , Art Rossana Martinez January 18, 2025
Drawing with Thread
Working with nature gives us an opportunity to slow down to look closely.
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Handmade , Home Garden Studio , Homemade , Rigid Heddle Loom , Sustainable art practice , Telar , Textile , Weaving , Yarn , Sky , Clouds , Observation Rossana Martinez December 2, 2024
Field of Lavender
Creating gardens is a way of taking beauty and nourishment, but most importantly, is a way of giving back to nature.
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Active , Art , Bees , Ecosystem , Gardening , Health , Home Garden Studio , Living Sculpture , Nature , Pollinators , Lavender , Reciprocity Rossana Martinez June 15, 2024
Learning Never Stops
Finding a pocket of green, a mini forest, a rooftop garden in an urban environment always brings awe and joy. Everything is possible. Nature and committed people make it possible.
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Land Restoration , Native Plants , Nature , Plants , Pollinators , Sustainable art practice , Art , Active , Hellstrip , Rutgers University , Environmental Education , Bees Rossana Martinez June 13, 2024
The Natural Environment
Red Columbine, enchanting small flowers doing the biggest job.
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Art , Colors , Health , Home Garden Studio , Living Sculpture , Trees , Sustainable art practice , Seeds , Nature , Native Plants , Ruby-throated hummingbird , Red columbine , Ecosystem , Plants , Gardening , Wildlife , Pollinators , Birds , Land Restoration , Aquilegia canadensis Rossana Martinez May 8, 2024
Seed Library, Kale
Seed Library (Kale)
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Art , Edible Garden , Home Garden Studio , Nature , Rigid Heddle Loom , Seed Library , Seeds , Telar , Textile , Weaving , Yarn , Kale , Handmade Rossana Martinez May 5, 2024
Sustainable Art Practice
I work in gardens, with fiber and textiles, photography, prints, and performance among others.
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Subtleties of Textiles
Before I began weaving, there were subtleties of textiles and dyeing/printing with vegetables from the rooftop garden in my work.
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Art , Colors , Handmade , Home Garden Studio , Nature , Rigid Heddle Loom , Telar , Textile , Weaving , Yarn Rossana Martinez February 21, 2024 Garden As Living Sculpture , Sustainable Art Practice , Environmental Steward
Seed Library, Beets
Seed Library (Remolacha/Beet)
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Art , Handmade , Home Garden Studio , Nature , Nourishment , Rigid Heddle Loom , Telar , Textile , Weaving , Yarn , Beets , Seed Library , Seeds Rossana Martinez January 4, 2024 Garden As Living Sculpture , Sustainable Art Practice , Environmental Steward
Dancing Purples
Asters are beautiful for our eyes, and good for the pollinators.
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Nature , Home Garden Studio , Colors , Native Plants , Aster , Weaving Rossana Martinez October 4, 2023 Garden As Living Sculpture , Sustainable Art Practice , Environmental Steward , Active , Body , Awareness
Brooklyn: Rooftop Garden
If you’re curious about starting a garden, planting something at home, apartment, volunteering in your community, refilling, use less plastic, learn about your local ecosystem, here I am and I’m happy to help.
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