Mary Magdalenes


“The cheaper pigment was also less stable: Mary Magdalene’s robe in The Entombment was never intended to be that unfetching shade of olive; it had just faded that way— from the color of the sea to the color of seaweed.”

clay, wood, fabric, ink

I liked the idea of the dual Mary Magdalenes-- one in the blue she could have been, and one in the brown she turned out to be.

Color, page 287-288

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