18hs SHINDIGO SPACE II linen, handspun and handwoven, indigo dye 7’ x 33”, 1998 $3,000

Selected permanent collections and exhibition venues: Museum of Modern Art (Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles – traveling exhibition); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Nether-lands; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Textile Magicians); Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan; Museum of Textiles, Toronto, Canada; LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York.

25hs SHINDIGO SPACE III linen, handspun and handwoven, indigo dye 6.5’ x 39”, 2000 $4,000

Statement: I have developed my own system for indigo dyeing, which utilizes wide flat troughs in which I lay small stones. As I pour the dye into the trough, I watch carefully as the indigo is drawn slowly into the fabric. The resulting gradations of hues of blue – from nearly invisible shadows to areas of nearly black – are a happy combination of natural process and my own invention. In my exploration of indigo dyeing I have discovered that the white in each work – whether handwoven cotton or linen or a mixture of both – is as great a concern as the dyed portion. If the white is not brilliant enough, or the undyed portion is not of the right proportion, the balance is broken, and so I insist: white is as important to my work as is indigo.                                                                                                                   Hiroyuki Shindo

26hs INDIGO BOX WITH YELLOW BALL linen, handspun and handwoven, indigo 9” x 9” x 9”, 2002 $800

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