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Cara Marie
Piazza

The New Yorker wringing color from the city's waste and weeds.
Words by Rosalind Jana. Photography by Emma Trim.

  • Arts & Culture
  • Issue 45

The New Yorker wringing color from the city's waste and weeds.
Words by Rosalind Jana. Photography by Emma Trim.

Cara Marie Piazza’s studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a plant-lover’s paradise. When we speak over Zoom, she is framed by piles of foliage on the table behind her and dried sprigs of barberry hanging on the wall. When she gesticulates, the ends of her fingers form fans of inky blue. Piazza is a natural dyer and artist, which means she takes her pigments from the world around her. From the time that she first dyed a silk slip 12

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Five

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