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“Geomyths”, the Gallery of Olfactory Art, and a Knife-Throwing Machine Gun
I bring you the finest reading material every week, in my Linkfest
I spend the week scouring the Internet for the finest stuff therein — then bundle it up, just for you, in my Linkfest. (I’ve done 59 of these so far.)
To begin …
1) 🎨 Art produced by “wild” pigments
The “Wild Pigment Project”, founded by its director Tilke Elkins, showcases work in which the artists themselves have gathered and created the pigments and materials they use. As they write in their press release …
.. what does it mean for artists of all kinds to work with materials they gather themselves in wild places — remote, rural and urban — and how do the artists’ personal, ancestral histories interact with the histories held in the land where they forage? …. This is a rare opportunity to experience not just the dynamic range of expression possible through these wild pigments, in painting, textiles, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture, but also the ‘behind-the-scenes’ workings of the pigment-centric studios, fields, forests, vacant lots, kitchens and backyards where these works are produced
