nothing like brushing noses with your newborn son who looks like a cute lil’ rosy cinnabun 🤍 and yes, the last 3 weeks have been the hardest days of my life. being a parent feels utterly surreal and my eyes give to tears so easily than usual.
Heidi Gustafson, who has spent the past five years collecting and
working with ocher, walks along Whidbey Island’s Double Bluff Beach, off
the coast of Washington, in search of the material. She came to scout
this area, where she spent time as a child, after recalling its
interesting cliff exposure.Some ochers, Gustafson believes, are calling out to be turned into a
pigment. Others are more resistant. Those ocher fragments are either
returned to their point of origin, or, if Gustafson cannot get back
there, placed outside in a stone graveyard of sorts that she has created
in the forest near her cabin. A few of her ocher-based artworks hang on
the wall.
