Artist Statement

Pigment Stories Exhibit

On display at Morning Glory Cafe, Eugene Oregon from Dec. 3rd - Jan. 31st

As a child artist, I developed my artistic voice with the capabilities of petroleum-based paints. Often painting nature with plastic! In my early 20’s, I became curious about the viability of creating with the minerals unique to the landscape around me, but using natural binders. So I gave away my acrylic paint supply and began learning how to paint with pigment, tree gum, and honey.

Our modern art mediums, despite our best intentions are supplied by corporations, industrially extracted and wrapped in plastic. My decision to make my own paint has been a turn towards a reciprocal creative practice with my environment. Each pigment has a home, a geological narrative, and a unique personality. Sitting with these foraging places, I am learning to interpret the language of iron and time, to see their stories, and be inspired by them. It has been a rewarding practice to work within the limitations of what is offered by the earth around me.

Artist Hosanna White

Hosanna is a pigment forager, wild clay potter, and earth artist of European-American descent living on Kalapuya land in the foothills of the Southern Willamette Oregon. She is dedicated to slow crafts that teach patience, cultivate gratitude, and help her shed expectations of consumption and convenience culture. She spends her time tending land and goats, crafting with friends, and teaching these crafts throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Donation

A 5% donation will be made from all sales at Morning Glory during the month of December to Komemma Cultural Protection Association at Cha Tumenma (“our ancestral land”) in Yoncalla, Oregon.

These colors come directly from the Oregon landscape, including Kalapuya lands, Siuslaw, Umatilla, and Molalla. For those of us who are guests on this land, we have the privilege and responsibility to acknowledge, uplift and grieve for the histories of indigenous genocide and cultural erasure, while supporting them to rebuild and imagine their futures.

Cha Tumenma Land Project is led by Esther Stutzman, a Kalapuya elder and her descendants in the southern Willamette Valley. They are in the midst of a land rematriation project on over 200 acres in their traditional territory, where they plan to solidify a permanent space for the native youth summer camps they’ve been running for decades, create a community garden, practice cultural fire and on-site sustainable forestry.

Check out Cha Tumenma Land Project to donate directly!