A year after moving into our old gothic revival house, it had become obvious that the minerals in the water were causing trouble with our household appliances. The washing machine seemed the worse off, so we installed a small water filter for it. Last week we cleaned out that filter, and I was left with [...]
Over the past year I’ve been working out a concept that I’ve dubbed, “Local Colour”. Every place has a local-colour. This colour is significant within a region and can be best understood as a permeating indigenous material. The specific hue of a local-colour can become synonymous with a historic, cultural or regional …
Yesterday Michael came up to me with a small piece of bog ore in his hands and happily presented me with a, “pigment rock”. When I asked him to take me to the source, he climbed on top of a pile of clean fill that had been dumped a few days back. Sure enough, there [...]
