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green earths for #worldpigmentday, but shhhhh thes

green earths for #worldpigmentday, but shhhhh these images are secret peeks from inside Book of Earth (!!) 🎇

ill be sharing the spring RELEASE events + invitations + performance + art show + conversations + all the gritty details so so soon!!

but for those who like to plan ahead human time style n save the key dates, here you go:

May 18 ○ Seattle @thirdplacebooks
May 20 □ virtual @pigmentsrevealed_international
May 26 ♡ Bay Area & World #chapelofthechimes
June 3 ◇ LA @philosophical_research_society

🔮🪨☄️🗿🪦💊🩸🧫⚗️📡🔗🗝⛏️👾❤️‍🩹🎊🐚🕊

((ps. these images from a chapter called EARTHGRIP ... feat. an essay on the creative superpower of green pigments with a special 👁 on nuclear waste containment & spiritual iconography))

land photographers i love whose work is woven into

land photographers i love whose work is woven into book of earth (heres a taste...but not the specific images i called on) pt. 1

@shadowontherun
@brianhmerriam
@brendanpattengale
+ corwin fergus (his are spirit horse rider and cheetahs dwellers)

also check out my story today about how THE HEART SHAPES OUR PERCEPTION OF TIME

look what arrived!!! an early copy of BOOK OF EART

look what arrived!!! an early copy of BOOK OF EARTH & she's just heartbreakingly gorgeous!!! 🪨🌈 there's even a special grit texture on the cover (duh)!! inside the rocks are alive and well. i truly cannot wait to offer and share this mournful joyous art with everyone so so so soon.... in just 2 months!!

thanks to everyone who already preordered (!!). lïnk in bio if you want to grab one also. please support local places. (& worldwide folks, i found a good way for you to order via book depository and put that in there too).

ps. WEST COAST FOLKS.... i'm coming to visit you and celebrate!! more details on that later ❤️‍🔥

i want to share a few women artists + artworks tha

i want to share a few women artists + artworks that influence my heart, my book of earth, and ochre columbarium project to come. studying their pigment, dust, stone, portal, death and grief practices....is such a gift. a real honor to relate to these powerful pieces in this lifetime 🪨🗿🪦⚱️

1-2. Michelle Stuart. @dadadog.stuart "illegible" books of earth straight from the ground.
3-4. Ana Mendieta. silueta in red pigment & maroya (moon) in rupestrian series (and her shrouds and burials and blood and so much more and ps. thx to @heidisopinka 's book utopia for returning me here).
5-6. Agnes Denes. human dust series (and her book of dust which somehow i hope to experience someday)
7. Candy Jernigan. her last piece made before dying, of 56 vessels with different pigmented spaces.
8. Janine Antoni. @janine_antoni gnaw, a block of lard chewed (and more). her recent work in cemetaries is gorgeous ~ see it on her website.
9-10. Nancy Holt. her stone enclosure: rock ring that ive befriended only recently (alive and well IN BELLINGHAM!) & so moved by @renapriest 's story of going to this place as a child in the incredible book put together by bruna press @kpodesva . (Nancy's "Western Graveyard" series is also in my heart list) see online via @holtsmithsonfoundation

theres many many more but all ill squeeze in here for today!!! happy womens history month.

shoutout to @thegreatwomenartists podcast for inspiring me to make this list for myself! would love everyone to make one! 🎇

sunlight on some standing stones feels so gooooood

sunlight on some standing stones feels so gooooood. this time of year for about an hour the sun peeks above the cedar treeline around my home and damn it is delicousssss

biogenic ochre "Buttercup" still alive after 1 ye

biogenic ochre "Buttercup" still alive after 1 year in the same glass jar. breathing, making oxygen bubbles &&& creating a gorgeous green something part of the microbial iron cycle (any alchemists or soil scientists out there know what?). pure earth magic.

pic in collab with @nativepaintrevealed

stone mirror of stones

stone mirror of stones

my box of drawing rocks/crayons i bring with me wh

my box of drawing rocks/crayons i bring with me when i travel away from home 🤍 it makes me v happy just to look at them.

friday play day with local cascadia soils. plus sk

friday play day with local cascadia soils. plus skulls.

sad to hear fellow pigment devotee Dr. Jill Mellic

sad to hear fellow pigment devotee Dr. Jill Mellick passed a few weeks ago. see @opus_archives recent homage post. her work documenting and psychoanalyzing psychologist Carl Jung's pigment use in his fantastical Red Book is strange and matter obsessive and I am grateful to have learned from her work in her own book, The Red Book Hours and from exchanging words and dust with her. My favorite thing she discovered was how Jung used a toxic green pigment as a functional paint to protect his wooden book stand from wormrot, and as a spritual paint to color his visions and snakes. Thank you Jill for all you gave us 🤍

(photos from @opus_archives post and the red book hours)

#theredbook #carljung #jillmellick #opusarchives

people occasionally like to ask me "what do you do

people occasionally like to ask me "what do you do" with the pigments you make/gather? idk. not my favorite question. for a lot of reasons im not gonna get into right here. but, yes! i do paint. i love painting. tho "scim" is probably the more specific term for what i do. from irish, "a thin coating of tiny particles like a limewash on a house or dust on a mantlepiece," "a fairy film that covers the land," "succumbing to the supernatural world through sleep."...

if you too secretly wonder wtf i do with pigments, heres a glimpse at what i am up to: my longterm vision (which many of my close ones know well) has always been to build/sculpt a big earth structure... i wont keep the pigments or rocks or carry them in a drawer or museum-like "archive" but give their counsel true space in a stone relic hall, columbarium, pigeonairre, charnal or spirit or arcosolia tower -- there are a lot of words for this type of building -- where many ochres exist together in a magnetizing prayer.

itll take some years. and a lot of scimming! and i might ask for your help eventually. but you can always imagine/trust me to be over here when im not sharing a lot, doing the oracle art asked of me, making offerings/studies/sketches towards this indelible earth....🖤

foraged a few joys from this closing spin cycle ro

foraged a few joys from this closing spin cycle round the sun!! 🎇

earth + hands x 2 places

earth + hands x 2 places

😍 there are many ochre workers i meet while tea

😍 there are many ochre workers i meet while teaching workshops, that now i am grateful to call friends and collaborators!! @elpitha i loved reading yr recent article about the evolution of your work in @swcontemporary ... really feels like we are there with you!

go read/see more via link in my stories!
some v sweet photos of earth.

photo here by elpitha tsoutsounakis

wanna guess the pigments?? 🫐🧊🛢🌊 ill ma

wanna guess the pigments?? 🫐🧊🛢🌊 ill make this one easier by showing both pigment & raw earth form and doing blues which are generally limited as minerals. if you miraculously can name where the pigments are from i give yu extra extra extra cred.

this is the kind of intro training i teach and find essential to gain awareness around how quickly knowledge of material and place can be forgotten when it comes to making color...

have fun!!! its a snow day here so im off to go out and look at animal tracks 🐾👣

***UPDATE. some answers are in my stories today****

anybody need some rock 👁 candy?? heres a few i

anybody need some rock 👁 candy?? heres a few i found in my desktop sweep-up pile... just to say hellllo while i conjur some pigment guessing games for us to play here soon

amazing pigments from so many beautiful artists &

anybody need a pigment talisman?? these early ochr

anybody need a pigment talisman?? these early ochre finger pressings i made have been guarding over my work and rock kin here for years. they are ready to fly to new places. & i need to make space for artwork and realms to come this winter. if you wld like to welcome one into your space or onto your altar (or for someone special), id love to get them to good homes.

⋒ 🜞◬UPDATE: these all found their new places! thnx everyone! ⩄ 🜜♡

ll take offerings of ca$h ($26 -108 sliding scale & if you live far away from me, you cover shipping) and let me pick what to send you based on divination. dm me the name of who its for, a mailing address and send paypal heidi@earlyfutures.com or venmo: hidealot to reserve.

earth pigments over pyritic coal on h20 papier about the size of my hand.
no binders
all blessings

microbial primal iron ooze, speckled soil, basalt

microbial primal iron ooze, speckled soil, basalt weathered red x2, sky mud, a few examples of ochre homes i saw this past week while doing coastal work that required stormy oceans 🌋🌊

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There was a word inside a stone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Marrow

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