In a tended garden, I grow the color and make the paint. Plants and minerals become pigment through drying, grinding, and binding, each hue carrying the deep time of the soil it came from and the long human history of making paint from the living world. This is color grown in greenhouse, student gardens, and home gardens, tying the work to a place and its seasons, and roots my practice in the slow, reciprocal labor of tending, harvesting, and transformation.

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This is made possible by the support of Reed College Garden stewards, artist Louise Krampien, with special thanks to wild pigment artist Daniela Molnar.