This is amazing art created by staining fabric with wine in a batik-like process. Amelia Fais Harnas has done some aMAZing work.
The Winemaker, No 3, detail, 2012, Damiani Vino Rosso on cotton, Amelia Fais Harnas.
A portrait artist at heart, I am particularly intrigued by the challenge of trying to control the unpredictable nature of wine bleeding through fabric in order to channel the equally imprecise nature of a person’s character. In addition, the sacred aspect of wine lends itself to religious iconography, reminding many of the Shroud of Turin: one who drinks wine may come to feel a certain level of saintliness sipping on this liquid form of divinity. So, this is a form of consecration.