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Color specific to the material of a place.
This series of design experiments take seriously the history of Medieval painting and the material production of color and pigment. After learning the fundamentals of pigment formulation, becoming familiar with various organic and synthetic binders, and so on, a series of found materials were collected from my local environment with the intention of being formulated into custom pigments and colors.
Together, the 12 colors construct a chromatic index of an individual domestic space. Each material was processed, mixed with acrylic binder, and painted onto test cards. The painted test cards were subsequently scanned, averaged into a single color, and given an existing name from industry which is associated that particular color. Leftover pigment was mixed with PVA binder, the binder found in white glue and industrial house paints, and formed into small objects.
