“Meet Me at the Louvre” is a water marbling silk experience in Paris that began as a seasonal class series in May and June of 2025 and has since continued as an ongoing practice rooted in process, observation, and material exploration.
We meet at the iconic Louvre Museum before walking together to a nearby Parisian garden, where the class takes place outdoors. There, you’re introduced to the fundamentals of water marbling—how pigments are floated on a prepared water surface, how they can be gently shaped using combs, styluses, or breath-like movement, and how each gesture shifts the composition in real time. You’ll learn how to layer color, create flow, and guide pattern formation without fully controlling it, allowing the water to become an active part of the design.
Once your patterns are ready, you’ll carefully transfer them onto silk by laying the fabric onto the surface of the water. The pigments adhere instantly, capturing the marbled design in a single impression. Each piece is then lifted, rinsed, and revealed—resulting in a unique silk textile that holds the trace of your movement and the unpredictability of the process.
The experience is paced to allow time for experimentation, reflection, and multiple pulls, so you leave not just with a finished marbled silk piece, but with an understanding of how color behaves in motion and how intention and chance meet in the process of making.