Invasive Pigments: Exploring Weeds Through Watercolor With Ellie Irons
Organization:
Headlands Center for the Arts
Category:
Visual Arts
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
8/28/2016
End Date:
8/28/2016
Start Time:
2:00 PM
End Time:
5:00 PM
Event
Info:
Transform the region's wildly prolific plants into your own place-specific watercolor pigments with artist and invasive species connoisseur, Ellie Irons. Join Irons in an installment of her ongoing project, Invasive Pigments, where she gathers, cultivates, and processes wild and feral plant species on an intimate scale to encourage dialogue and activities for participants to experience their habitat in unexpected ways. Weeds are culturally defined for their lack of usefulness to us, but here they are useful as pigment in a representational system that marks the relationship between humans and plants within a larger ecosystem.
Participants will explore the Headlands' diverse flora while distinguishing and identifying the introduced plants that have become common in human-impacted areas, with a special eye toward those that possess the most palette building potential. Irons will share recipes from her own plant-based paint experiments, and will lead the group in making hand-mixed pigments for use in an en plein air painting session in the Headlands' hills.
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