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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!

as winter settles i long to be in land together ag

as winter settles i long to be in land together again!!! happens every year, and especially these plague-laden ones. just putting this here like finding a beacon photo album in gps geocache or something

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...

monday dishes to do while writing on bones and she

monday dishes to do while writing on bones and shells 👁🐚

3 images from the same superfund recovery mine pla

3 images from the same superfund recovery mine place...

welcomings (those ol bones!)
closings (rainbows!)
and a good sign of a guarderlings keepin an eye on things (fresh scat on the path out!)

some raw post industrial ochre recovery happenin h

some raw post industrial ochre recovery happenin here near wales. hematite soil is darker and sparkley in person, but bright pink in certain light. 💗 notice the english ivy? both there and in the US its a very clear plant sign of former industrial invasiveness and earth disturbances. thx to wildling @foundandground.

contemplating many hushed songs of magnetic mud, s

contemplating many hushed songs of magnetic mud, sand, rocks, black ochre ores...

bricks, slag, tailing, ditch, fall fossils of ligh

bricks, slag, tailing, ditch, fall fossils of light right where they are

a clay place in town under the railway ~ coastal l

a clay place in town under the railway ~ coastal local mugwart and rosehips grow out of it, tiny oystershells and paperpulp wash ashore, people make amazing beachlog castles with walkways of seabricks, and in the picnic field i saw a really pretty bolbitius titubans poppin up

one grey pigment in my post yesterday is from here 🌬☁️☁️☁️

rainy day retouching a work i did of local northwe

rainy day retouching a work i did of local northwest earthes & with resting field flour water ~~~≅👁

a few binders i dont ever use but keep around as o

a few binders i dont ever use but keep around as offerings and love to look at and chew and smell ~ can yu tell which one is my actual chewed gum remains? 😂 and what do yu think it is? cherry tree? fish glue? acacia? aleppo pine? boswellia? mastika? fir? apricot?

yellow larches and weathering fall soil that keeps

yellow larches and weathering fall soil that keeps an eye on them...

how i tell time with flowers on my dining room tab

how i tell time with flowers on my dining room table....when the dahlias fill up the table, autumn's fully here... i think we're very close!

(other clues: leaf fossils w @juliapnorton , chanterelle toasts, pax dye mushrooms, dreaming of dusk...)

fresh rust thats growing in one of my mortars afte

fresh rust thats growing in one of my mortars after i took it out to get some first of the season rain and air (see previous post, its the dark steel apothecary one).

the black pigment is my personal dark mix of old growth charcoal, pyritic coal, jurassic tree, magnetic sand from opposite sides of our planet, magnetite from that hill, thos. eagle island... something else maybe i forget.

im thinking of my absolute favorite way to describe red ochre...

"no red deeper than red after black"
frm rothko chapel poem

@a.rural.pen thinks maybe i cld add some iron salts and maybe alchemize iron cyanoferrate?? (ie. prussian blue) but i cant bear to scrape it all off to try. too beautiful as is!

mortars + pestles, from my recent talk and studio

mortars + pestles, from my recent talk and studio offerings via @botanicalcolors. recording is up (on their website via feedback friday videos) if you want to watch and imagine you stopped by for a visitation 🖤

iron food for a future wave ~~~~~

iron food for a future wave ~~~~~

im giving a rare little talk + studio walkabout ho

im giving a rare little talk + studio walkabout hosted by my friends over at @botanicalcolors...THIS WEEK on their FEEDBACK FRIDAY! go to botanicalcolors.com to RSVP and come with all your deep dark earth vision questions!!

i will leave a good amount of time for conversation bcs i want to pretend my friends are all coming over for tea and rock talk in my tiny rural hideaway...

thanx to kathy & amy for hosting 🤎

good morning, dont forget to stay here on earth!

good morning, dont forget to stay here on earth! and heres some xtra air & space i made for a brilliantly energetic woman painter mama @sincerelyemma.studio livin in texas...

sending love and support to all my friends, birth and psyche workers and health workers in tx right now.

(and yes! thats a tiny bottle of international klein blue!)

"to see the world, things dangerous to come, to see behind walls, draw closer, to feel" ~ walter mitty

px 2+3 paintings of emma's

i just love looking at this place memory while my

i just love looking at this place memory while my little niece naps... how does anyone ever start reading geologic ŧime∿lines? lot of my work and research and scribing is off this grid these days... but while im on urban wifi at my sisters house during my auntie duties, imma sprinkle a few ochre (or uh my cat dove) offlings thanks to @foundandground's interwebbling nudge o earth love 🖤

resting 🜜🜞 places

resting 🜜🜞 places

coffee + rocks + baby baby sanddollar morn this we

coffee + rocks + baby baby sanddollar morn this week with amazing artists at @vashonartistresidency

do you see the gold blink within the evileye??! it is evidence of a magic synchronicity of meeting @depyzepo an artist in the IRON BLACKSMITH LINEAGE OF LEMNOS GREECE who makes these glasseous powers. yep. if yu know me, yu know how beloved Lemnian iron ochre realms are to me. mind blown.

thanxxoxo to brilliant iron bone heart @hannahhirsekorn and generous artist extraordinaire @cathysarkowsky for space and time and hearth there together

pics ~~~
1. vashon beach pigment finds, along with ochre gifts of iceland, japan and jordan rocks and ventifact. eye & clay garlic amulet by @depyzepo
2. worlds best crock pot
3. smoke skies from the ferry
4. genius ambidextrous smoke holder contraption by the windician @at_deidre
5. scorpian ethical taxidermy by @hannahhirsekorn

rain came today! so makin spirit seal green earthe

rain came today! so makin spirit seal green earthes or sankir for my iconographer friend @nmaione_ . i rlly appreciate the traditional icon writer's palette and practice.... anyone else love to watch Tarkovsky's Andre Rublev film epic on repeat??

& also nongreens reqwested for a face: a west lands golden ochre mixed from several places, and ofcourse a sacred blue bog enshroudins...

place memories for a friend...

place memories for a friend...

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