In May 2023, Rosa released her debut picture book, My Indigo World, which she both authored and illustrated. The book has garnered widespread acclaim, being named a 2023 New York Public Library Best Book and a 2024 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book. It has also earned places on the Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List and the 2024 CCBC Choices list. Additionally, "My Indigo World" was selected as one of the best children's books of 2024 by the Bank Street College of Education and Maryland's 2024 "Great Reads from Great Places" Library of Congress Children’s Book Selection for the National Book Festival.
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Natural Indigo Dye
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This page shows various textile work and pigment making processes mainly with natural indigo and some other dye plants between 2016 and present.
Greenhouse
-Site-specific natural-dyed fiber installation in the greenhouse. 2022
Oak spring Garden Foundation, VA
An Indigo Dyer
-A portrait of a Korean female indigo dyer, 2020
12"x16", Gold pigment on natural indigo-dyed linen, stretched on wood panel A private commissioned work
Time, Space & Blues
-Blueprint Series
These 6 images of the first blueprint edition of Time, Space & Blues convey 8 months of a planting process with an annual plant, Japanese indigo (Polygonum tinctorium) from seeds to collecting seeds. Those plants were planting in my tiny backyard in Brooklyn from April to August, harvested in between August through September, and seeds were collected in late october in 2018.
Photo by Megan Elyse