247) Tilke Elkins: Cultivating place-based relationships through wild botanical and mineral pigments
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Tilke Elkins is a multi-media social practice artist, and founder of Wild Pigment Project, an organization that promotes ecological balance and regenerative economies through a passion for wild pigments, their places of origin, and their cultural histories.
In this podcast episode, Tilke sheds light on how synthetic pigments came to dominate the industry of color; how working with place-based, wild-harvested pigments transforms our perceptions of color as consumers, creatives, or as artists; and more.
Featured music: The Fruitful Darkness by Trevor Hall
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
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