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CEREMONIES FOR BEING WITH is a series i, @tilkeelkins began last winter while on residency at @sitkacenter. i showed up at the beach where the river meets the sea with nothing but a paintbrush. gradually, a broad mineral palette came to collaborate with me. i ground stones using other flat stones, mixed sea water & creek water to make a binderless paint, & listened for the color music that followed. i painted on plywood & lumber that washed up on the beach, inviting it back into relationship. this series embodies a new form of reciprocal cycle i've evolved between me, the pigments, their place, the sitka center, & residents at the center...and possibly, you. see description below for details. there are currently two ceremonies on view: one at @nmsuartmuseum (pictured in first image) & as of last week, one at @formandconcept. here's a description of the piece at @formandconcept, pictured in last images. dm to inquire if you'd like to step into the cycle with me..$444 for this piece plus $111/ yr rent. CEREMONY FOR BEING WITH SALMON RIVER, 2023 Found wood scrap, mineral and carbon pigments site-specifically foraged & ground into paint on-site. 5 1/2 x 12 in 14 x 30.5 cm WPP founding director Tilke Elkins has worked with mineral & botanical pigments since 2007, responding to place with color in a frameless, multi-dimensional, collaborative space that cultivates a relationship of giving & receiving with the land. This series of paintings made with site-foraged minerals on found plywood at the spot where the wood was washed ashore by the winter tides, at the mouth of the Salmon River on Nechesni lands (colonially known as Cascade Head, Oregon). Produced during an artist residency at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in February 2023, the plywood board that holds the paint is available for sale, while the pigments are offered for “rent” only, by the year, to be washed off and returned to the Salmon River when the rental period ends. All rent funds will be directed to the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology to be offered as stipends for the Indigenous Place Keepers artist residents. last 4 pics by brian fleischer/ @formandconcept #ochre #naturalpigments #wildpigments