true colours

I’ve been experimenting with floral, bark and organic vegetable dyes for some years now. I’ve dyed swathes of fabric, but in more recent times I’ve made inks for blotting and painting organic rag cotton paper. I don’t use any mordants for longevity of these pieces. I am using only true nature. Some colours fade more readily than others. I like to expose areas of these painted papers to the sun to create prints known as anthotypes. They’re likely to fade. As the Buddhists’ doctrine says, everything changes and nothing lasts forever; Everything, from our emotions, thoughts, feelings, cells in the body, plants all around us, the earth, the universe - ever-changing, growing and decaying continuously.