Tucson artist Amber Doe works in a lot of mediums: sculpture, textiles, dyes, performance and more. Her latest work will incorporate dance and movement, too — telling a story of migration and how African and Mexican cultures have mixed.
It’s called “Ancestral Grammar,” and it began for her last year when she went to Oaxaca, Mexico, to research the indigo plant.
Doe told The Show more about her project.
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AMBER DOE: My initial interest in indigo as a plant came through my maternal uncle doing our family history a really long time ago, pre-Google, pre-internet almost, just kind of archival work. And he found out that part of our family originated from a plantation that had indigo and rice and cotton as its main commodities. So I kind of became curious about this plant and the fact that it has a relationship across the planet…