Tag: traditions
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A Year in Grandpa’s Garden
Taos, New Mexico During my son’s 3rd and 4th years, we renovated the historic ‘Distillery’ in Taos, New Mexico. My father had constructed a little casita behind the main house and we worked together to establish a permaculture garden in between. The garden was terraced to utilize water flowing through the Los Lovatos Acequia, which…
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Chichicastenango
Colorful scenes from the Saturday market in Chichicastenango, Guatemala – mixed media artworks by Lee Lee
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Inle Lake Cottonweavers
Their shop was the first floor of their home, stilted over Inle lake in Burma. The organic qualities of their massive hand hewn looms fill the room with the soft atmosphere of wood and cotton. They live under one of the most oppressive regimes today, which has resulted in a boycott of Myanmar by most…
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Sou Chou Silk Mills
Part of Weave, oil paintings and drawings by Lee Lee that explore an industrialized silk mill in Sou Chou, China
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Carolina lintheads
Old stories of life in a mill village near Anderson, South Carolina offer a vignette of life alongside drawings by Lee Lee of the burnt out shell of the old cotton mill.