Alexandra Munroe Instagram – Today we mourn the passing of artist, weaver, gardener, and visionary Jack Lenor Larsen, who created magical and intelligent beauty in all he did. A great master and innovator of Modern design, he drew from his travels across Asia and Africa and worked with artisans in over 30 countries, preserving weaving and dying techniques that would otherwise have been lost to time and machines. And then there was LongHouse, the extraordinary environment he created with his love Peter Olsen over the last 30 years. There they staged Bill T Jones dances, Laurie Anderson concerts, Yoko Ono installations all outside in the gardens which Jack would constantly recreate. He was my great friend and mentor, an inspiration, an incarnation of profound, imaginative and capacious humanity. We used to spend Christmas together. This year, we pray for the lasting and vital legacy of LongHouse. Land, Place, Spirit.
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