New weaving

This weaving is being forged by math and careful planning. Up until recently I always used my eye and the yarn to determine the WIP and dimensions of a particular piece. But since im running near the end of the materials I’ve stocked piled for this year’s projects I had to make calculated decisions and accurately estimate my yarn usage. Universals formulas and my notes of past weavings proved useful…

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April 16, 2024

The first step in preparing wool for spinning.

  This past weekend I volunteered to help a shearing crew in the Navajo Partition lands and was gifted a few colors that I was looking for in Navajo Churro. The season was hard on the wool and it’s quality is a little stressed but the color is awesome. The late winter and severe storms stressed the sheep which can affect wool quality and I’m, hand processing the fleece which…

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September 26, 2023

Zefren at the Stanford Arts Intensive

On September 12th to the 15th the I had the most rewarding experience at Stanford University. This experience was originally scheduled for the fall of 2020, and little did we know then that it would take three years for it to be completed. This trip wraps up 2023 full schedule of flights and collaborations that were all reschedule because of the pandemic. In the late winter of 2020 I met…

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September 5, 2023

Zefren-M to be a part of Fluid Gaze Exhibition in Albuquerque

“Colors may fade but I still exist” with be part of this exhibition from it’s opening night September 30th to the end of year. Colors may fade as always be a person raw piece as it was the frist time i used my own experiences of growing up as a gay Navajo that believed the indoctrination of Climb the ladder and return to the reservation. Life was not easy and…

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