To collect the pigment I used in this piece, I traveled to southern Spain, to the Minas de Rio Tinto. These ancient mines are like something out of a Zorro movie. Dating back over 300 years before the time of Christ, they have been operated by the Phoenicians, Tartessians, Iberians, Romans, Greeks, Visigoths, Moors, and obviously the Spanish. But we are here for colors that were created long before any of that existed, back in the Paleozoic era - over 530 million years ago.
To collect the pigment I used in this piece, I traveled to southern Spain, to the Minas de Rio Tinto. These ancient mines are like something out of a Zorro movie. Dating back over 300 years before the time of Christ, they have been operated by the Phoenicians, Tartessians, Iberians, Romans, Greeks, Visigoths, Moors, and obviously the Spanish. But we are here for colors that were created long before any of that existed, back in the Paleozoic era - over 530 million years ago.
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