original painting 8x6", Copper oxide, chestnut skins, and salt on paper.
About the materials
In the winter of 2020, while on a 4-week silent retreat with 5 other Artmonks, I began foraging for materials to make my own inks. The desire to make my own inks has been rising in me for some time, first and foremost to decrease the amount of plastic I'm "consuming". The inks I had been using up until making my own were alcohol-based and came bottled in plastic with an additional plastic wrapper. If I ordered them online they came with more packaging still. So in the depths of Vermont winter, I began looking around, on our land and in the kitchen. While the process of making ink is notably time consuming, the process brings me closer to the land I live on — the ancestral land of the Abenaki people. I feel more aligned with my ethics and have a new sense of curiosity in the work.
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