Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Reused paper, old sheets, linen, welding rod, steel wire, relief ink, cyanotype, and natural dyes, including onion skins, turmeric, beets, indigo, and coffee. Fennel, plantain, oxalis, and oak tree leaves made into dyes and inks. Fennel stock, graph paper, glue, dyed thread, yarn, electrical tape, light blubs and light chords.
Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025.Â
Tempo Guisto, 2025. Reused paper, old sheets, linen, welding rod, steel wire, relief ink, cyanotype, and natural dyes, including onion skins, turmeric, beets, indigo, and coffee. Fennel, plantain, oxalis, and oak tree leaves made into dyes and inks. Fennel stock, graph paper, glue, dyed thread, yarn, electrical tape, light blubs and light chords.
Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Tempo Guisto, 2025. Handmade paper from weeds, mulberry, recycled math notes, cyanotype scraps, oxalis flowers, invasive grass roots, light bulb, UC Berkeley power.
Tempo Guisto, 2025. detail.
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Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Tempo Guisto, 2025. Large welded handsewn network, detail.
Tempo Guisto, 2025. Folded watercolor paper stained with oxalis weed ink, UC berkeley power.
Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025. Folded watercolor paper with cyanotyped weeds, ink made from weeds, ink made from oxalis flowers, light bulb, UC Berkeley power.
Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025. Calligraphy paper folded, elmers glue, light blub, UC berkeley power.
Tempo Guisto, 2025. Welded frame with copper, onion skin dye, indigo dye, turmeric dye, coffee dye, and linocut pattern printed, UC Berkeley power.
Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025. detail pattern making.
Tempo Guisto, 2025.
Kelcey Christen, Tempo Guisto, 2025. detail pattern making.
The term tempo giusto is used by musicians to describe playing at the right speed. The work sheds light on the importance of slowness and deep looking through the lens of warm meditational revisitings. It illuminates a rhythm and a constant in naturally occurring repetitions as well as the tension with the man-made grid. Through many different processes and investigations of material, it works at taking time to process outcomes that are out of our hands.