Inks made from beetroot, bluepea flower, coffee, vinegar on rice paper and watercolour paper
Thinking about where my materials come from. I’m captured by these two points:
- The yellow of beeswax comes from the accumulation of pollen over time as the worker bees chew wax to build hives.
- It takes the lifetime production of 2 – 3 worker honey bees just to produce 1 gram of wax.
This feels powerful and significant, especially while I read Braiding Sweetgrass and think about materials as gifts from nature.
We are often so detached from the sources of our material world. We think of materials as things contained in plastic boxes with price labels, rather than as matter with connections to plants and animals around us.
