The Toxicity of Pigments

Pigments can migrate from being a medium with which you tell a story on canvas to being something that actually gets inside you and does damage to you. I first started thinking about pigments in that way as something that can sort of seep deep inside us when I, I remember coming across a news item. Um, would you talk about lead white, for example? Yeah. Well, sure. In fact, if I could just digress even for a second, that sense of toxicity and of, of the way that a pigment can migrate is at the heart of my book. And related to that, one of the, uh, sort of, undercurrents that runs throughout the