Christi Johnson is a textile artist and teacher with a lifetime of experience making magic with fibers. She calls the Catskills New York her home where she creates mystical garments blending elements of botanical dyes with handcrafted stitches. The resulting textile talismans honor the body, its boundaries, its extensions, and its relations to the world and the cosmos around us. 

In this episode we talk about: 

 - Christi's journey from working in the fashion industry in NYC and LA to working as a textile artist in the Catskills

 - The importance of creativity as play and for fun, not just for followers and profit

 - Exploring the sensory input of our hands and the significance of working with your hands

 - Christi's process for making art: from grounding and exploration to "reading the ingredients"

 - Natural dyes and how they change and interact with a fabric and letting go of expectations to see what happens

 - What drew Christi to embroidery and how she uses this art form to create talismans that evoke deeper responses with symbols than with words

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