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Create color with Earth’s extraordinary range of pigments in this spectacular book from artist and ochre specialist Heidi Gustafson. Part anthropological study, part art book, each chapter explores Heidi’s rare pigment archive, challenges our preconceptions about the inanimate world, and offers practical advice for creating your own pigments.
Populated throughout with contributor essays offering historical and cultural context, Book of Earth is a celebration of nature’s palette and a toolkit for any creative person to engage with color in its most authentic form.
“Color gathering and making are specialized activities in many cultures, my own included, with certain restrictions for physical, cultural, or spiritual safety and protection. Yet, their discreet influence is a rather big part of our lives. Thus, while I do offer introductory recipes and ways to engage as a shared creative inheritance to renew, celebrate, steward, and protect―I ask you to consider how to integrate earth pigment into your own specific cultural time and place and ecological bioregion, and with appropriate teach- ers, with respect, reciprocity, and pleasure.” —Heidi Gustafson, Preface.
Hardcover; 223 pages; 8.25” x 11”
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