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flood-revealed ochres from the mountain where i li

flood-revealed ochres from the mountain where i live && the one small creek that flows off through an iron vein.... part of la usual long m👁👁n big tide rounds to all the places...

from a place-orienting ritual moment by the sea wt

from a place-orienting ritual moment by the sea wth amazing group of dedicated educators...magnetic sand, glasswort, iron concretions, moonsnails, pale clay, glacial melt, graphite, brick, peat peat peat, charcoal, blue and green ochres, mugwort, wild rose, eagle chatter, giant horsetails, low low full moon tide, rich conversation, so many of the wonders one cld wonder with ....

it was a good warm up and very nourishing for me (plus id never been to this specific place beach before!), to return to walk teachings again after a couple years. ((not quite ready to open my studio home to workshops just yet... but maybe getting there...))

uh....not sure where im supposed to put my compute

uh....not sure where im supposed to put my computer to respond to email monday realms after a weekend of workin some rock talk... & so stoked for tmrw when i get to spend some time with pacific northwest art, ecology and climate change college educators walking places where water and ice flows influenced the distribution of pigment-rich sediment on the coast over the last 200,000 years... finally! my first small intensive workshop after the pandemic!!! 🤲🏽

yellow ochre is pigment of the month over at PRI @

yellow ochre is pigment of the month over at PRI @pigmentsrevealed_international -- so i gathered a few throw backs from my feed to honor one of the greatest & oldest & humblest earth ochres in the worlds!!! first image is goethite pigment raw and heated to turn into red ochre. 💛🧡❤️‍🔥❤

did an interview fresh up @colossal (thnxo to edit

did an interview fresh up @colossal (thnxo to editor grace ebert!). she asked great questions ie. climate change, what's beyond color, and i even got to sneak in a mention on @museum_of_edible_earth and economist vaclav smil and other good stuff.

if yu get to the end of the chat theres a little sneak mention of a project ive been working hard on during the pandemic ( a raw earth book for yr toiletside table 👾🙃 more on that later tho) eeeeeeeeeeeoooooooeeek!

coastal earth pigments made by rubbing rocks on sa

coastal earth pigments made by rubbing rocks on sandstone ~~ out on a nonrainy day in my favorite spots 🐚

thx to @thelissome for featuring my earth work and

thx to @thelissome for featuring my earth work and words in their beautiful print magazine No.3, Cosmic Connections ~~~

(and more cred love to @kjphotos1022 for photo forages)

offering refuge for a moment here, in raw earth an

offering refuge for a moment here, in raw earth and iron water pools, if you need it in your feed today ...

rare image of WHITE VIVIANITE before it turns blue

rare image of WHITE VIVIANITE before it turns blue. photo by founder of @pigmentsrevealed_international and vivianite specialist, Melanie Ancheta (we were documenting how long it takes for viv to turn from white to blue on this cloudy day a few years ago, after foraging with @pigmenthunter if i remember right)

ill be hosting a dialogue for PRI launch party with two friends @kelseyehanson_ and @ochreandink ~~~ 5pm PST May 1st. ~~~ come hang out, you can talk and engage live with us!

see pigmentsrevealed.com to register 🤍💙

sunlight for pigment is like watering for plants..

sunlight for pigment is like watering for plants...these soils taking a turn in the window sill today...

silly deep yesterday with foraged edible flower pe

silly deep yesterday with foraged edible flower petal confetti (magnolia petals, maple blossom, salmonberry flowers, apple blossoms, grape hyacinth, forsythia), forest bowling set up by my sweetheart and... best surprise of all...

!!an amazing bio ochre discovery in a creek area that was flooded this year !! 🎊 🎊 &&& ok it was also my birthday so im celebrating on here for a minute just because life is so fragile and strange and i love cherishing Earth's golden honey moments in all ways 🍯

& just incase yu need a little daily fix of vials

& just incase yu need a little daily fix of vials of earth loving, i gotchu bb💄🧯🧴🕯🔋🎚🧵♟️🧂🍼🌵🦾🫂

one rock, several souls in the ion onion (scroll t

one rock, several souls in the ion onion (scroll thru to end to see liquid red). working on a gift for a neighbor... ♥️💧🩸

epic nest with some excellent future white ochre e

epic nest with some excellent future white ochre eggshell pigment when these babies break out into freefall!

yellow goethite "rock" after a wet winter. what an

yellow goethite "rock" after a wet winter. what an ochre hero and heartwarmer 🧡

you know i pulled over and chatted up the excavato

you know i pulled over and chatted up the excavator boss about how long they are digging this foundation and where all the "glacial till waste" was being moved and dumped 😱. amazing beautiful soils full of clay and iron!!! whyyy are peoplee building over all this glorryyyy????

amazing to see new biogenic ochre in forest creeks

amazing to see new biogenic ochre in forest creeks flowing through major fire damage from last year... millions of little beings make this ochre from their own bodies. so beautiful and always so mysterious and powerful (thought of you @mia_culpa !!).

photo: thx 2 toby @sacredlandfilmproject

ochre pigments on a sidewalk crushed by cars telli

ochre pigments on a sidewalk crushed by cars telling truths for those who look (these colors were, in fact, made by ancient fire)... happy world pigment day!!! hope to see people at 11am pacific time for the @pigmentsrevealed_international Q&A zoom with a bunch of rad women!

#worldpigmentday

getting some daylight air on these pals, while we

getting some daylight air on these pals, while we figure out where they need to go. i love this time of year here in the ochre den, when overgrown blackberries are easiest to trek through and nettles havent come too high yet. and while its still cottonwood bud time! (this year i got to gather windstorm broken branches with lovely local herbalist @river_roots_apothecary). itll be my 4th or 5th year of trying to get up this local creek to find a source iron vein. the window of time is so short. maybe tomorrow? we had a ton of flooding this year, so im curious to see how the waterways changed and whats eroded.... crossin my fingers!

checkin in on an old rockhound mine pit where peop

checkin in on an old rockhound mine pit where people like to get geodes and i snuggle this perfect coal, hissingerite-laced black and golden goethite they leave behind...

some sketches of soils i love , for a project to c

some sketches of soils i love , for a project to come thats taking much of my attention this winter ~~~~ more to come as snow melts and daylight lengthens!!

& an envelope scrap from emily dickinson via @ndpublishing The Gorgeous Nothings

pondering abundance of iron & water, aka yellow oc

pondering abundance of iron & water, aka yellow ochre n soils. my friend steven used to always remind me about the practice of feeling abundance and well being thru noticing yellow (a practice from tibetan buddhist teachings). so i pass along to you.... 🍯xxxxx

spotted one of my iron windows in @seeallthis alon

spotted one of my iron windows in @seeallthis alongside kassia st clair @kassiastclair essay on colour ... at the end of her writing she also mentions fellow friends here @designnomaddiaries @stellamariabaer @ffrench @ab.brazier and nancy pobanz

see black stuff on the magnet ends?? my bud @a.rur

see black stuff on the magnet ends?? my bud @a.rural.pen is helping me perfect the art of extracting magnetite (black ochre) from bank-shredded dollars .... for a special project to be revealed later ;) go see his latest post for details!!! i love the secondary water tone i wasnt expecting... alchemy 4 life...

writ raw ~~~ how beautiful is multivalent iron?? m

writ raw ~~~ how beautiful is multivalent iron?? may our year/s ahead remain true to earth source!

a few winter travelling companions

a few winter travelling companions

does anyone know where this archive of historical

does anyone know where this archive of historical film pigment and dye is?? i love these images but cant figure out where i stashed the details!!

**solved! thx @beu_sire !technicolor archive at @eastmanmuseum !**

do you know about @wildpigmentproject ground brigh

do you know about @wildpigmentproject ground bright pigment project? go see their latest post to learn more about these beautiful natural pigments with many stories...

i'm proud to have been the first early pigment donor to her project (see the lower left ochre ca. 2019??) and have made a couple more throughout the years to support the project & material research, knowledge and reciprocal land work... so many of our friends are represented here!!

thanks tilke for all you do to bring us a little closer together!

seraphim heart, made to keep an eye on ochres when

seraphim heart, made to keep an eye on ochres when im away, with the same poem always in mind

red deepened by black red made deep by black / prolation of deep red like stairs of lava / deep red like stairs of lava to gather us in / gather us before the movements are to be made

(john taggart, rothko chapel poem)

can you guess what ochre mineral this is?? a woman

can you guess what ochre mineral this is?? a woman i made pigments for a few years ago (to replace precious divination pigments that belonged to her Buryat grandmother, and were stolen from her) sent this image to me last week. i had put the pigments for her in a painted steel metal box i used to keep my grandmothers things & precious last letter to me in.

she eventually put that metal box in an old ash tree as an offering to build relationship with the tree. not long after, the huge tree was struck by lightening and miraculously fell or "bowed out" in such a unbelievable protective way that no one and no homes were harmed.

the tree guy came and saw the tree had been decomposing and dying for a long time... the act of cutting her up became a celebration and people from all over came to tell all their childhood stories of the tree and people left gifts and took pieces of the tree to make things with. when they got to cutting up the last part of the tree... they found this.... the metal pigment box burnt into the shape of the hearthole where my friend had made her offering to relate to this elder, dying tree.

i find this so so beyond beautiful.

usually these private stories i hear and keep held between myself and rocks and the people i work with, but this is such an integral and beautiful part of "earth pigment" work... i asked to share... how it actually works....i cherish this image of a new full circle ochre that was made and it really helps me remember, in part, the container matters as much as the material itself...

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