Not sure how much I want to say about this…I could leave it. Just post the image and the title.
Maybe its a piece to show.
But for the sake of my blog, process and the need to document I’ll write.
Disposed of ‘used thinner’ from multiple oil painters, collected and distilled over a period of time. Left to stand, gradually the paint settles as sediment and the thinner can be poured off and reused. Divisable. The sediment normally disposed of. However I realised as I recycled the thinner that there was a uniform colour created each time. The colour of everything left behind.
I collected the sediment in a specimen jar - it seemed appropriate somehow. Something evidential. Something clinical. Dispassionate. Removed.
I wonder if I should use it, make a drawing or print, but for now it doesn’t feel right. I just want to keep the jar. Distilled.
Everything is divisible. (Almost)
Addendum: I’ve come back and posted the image 3 times as I attempted to colour correct the image to get it as faithful as possible, but I’m working with an I-phone 11 and an old Sony 3/4 SLR and a laptop, which doesn’t bode well fo colour correction. George if you read this I know how off things are, please don’t judge me!