So when I dunk it in you'll see like I'll just try to make minimal splashes

Artists and curator Luccaza Brampman for Esemo. Do you want to put on some gloves and put things in? Yeah

We're in her backyard in Oakland making an indigo bath

Which is to say we are making a natural blue dye using powder from the indigo plant and it's kind of complicated

This is actually our second time trying to make indigo because the first time we didn't get the ratio rate

It's tricky

Luccaza begins by stirring the indigo powder and the other ingredients together in this vat of hot water

Moving it very slowly because we don't want the

Oxygen to get into the bath. You have to stir it kind of lovingly and slowly and then if you actually do it right and all goes according to plan

It's amazing

You and what I want it to do the indigo mixture seems to come alive in the water

It starts fizzing and glistening as you stir it. It's so psychedelic like these metallic

Shimmery bubbly chunks are swirling around in water. It's like we were mixing a cauldron of deep swirling purple potion

And then when we dunked in some white t-shirts they came out deep green and then as we let the shirts dry in the sun

Patches of blue gradually emerge and slowly spread over the cloth like we had conjured it

It's pretty cool. Yeah, I mean I think it is really like a magical process

It's also just like makes a really beautiful color. It's I feel like who doesn't like indigo blue

Nobody nobody doesn't like indigo blue or at least I can't imagine anyone hating it

It's so ubiquitous and be like someone hating water indigo is everywhere

Because indigo is what put the blue in blue jeans

Articles of interest a show about what we wear and so maybe the idea is about

Who can attach ideas about class an idea of home to a piece of cloth any

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