BAG OF BONES: THE ELUSIVE PIGMENT VIVIANITE

I was watching a short Instagram video by @evie_hatch, an art historian and pigment specialist, about a material I had never really considered before: Vivianite.

She was showing this strange, unassuming substance—something that can begin almost colorless, even gray—and then, with exposure, with time, it turns blue. Not a bright, declarative blue. Something quieter. A blue that seems to come into being rather than arrive fully formed.