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John Sabraw, \u201cAxioma VII\u201d (2015), mixed media on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches (McCormick Gallery)<\/p><\/div>\n

John Sabraw applies his alchemy to\u00a0sludge, turning it into art by extracting pigment from it and then creating images of nature, under siege, autumnal, and weirdly beautiful. Turning poison into paint becomes a modern version of creating\u00a0gold from\u00a0lead<\/a>. It isn’t just symbolic but a way to make cleanup a potentially profit-generating\u00a0industry.\u00a0An example of his\u00a0recent work is\u00a0on view at Manifest’s Secret Garden <\/a>exhibition right now. Last year,\u00a0Hyperallergic<\/a> did an appreciative story on his use of toxic runoff\u00a0to create pigments and offered examples of the finished work, as impressive as everything he’s done in the past. From Hyperallergic:<\/p>\n

You can see the process in detail in a\u00a0short documentary<\/a> by Jacob Koestler, but in essence, the team takes samples from the most polluted areas, neutralizes the pH, then separates the concentrated iron\u00a0from\u00a0the clean water. As Kalliopi Monoyios\u00a0reported for Scientific American<\/em><\/a> last month, one\u00a0goal of the project is\u00a0to see if there\u2019s\u00a0a way that remediation could pay for itself through a sustainable product. Iron oxide pigments\u00a0include familiar names like ochre, sienna, and umber, whose\u00a0use dates back tens of thousands of years. In theory, production of pigments from the toxic sludge on a large scale could be marketable and support the removal of the pollutants as its\u00a0own industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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