Foraged Pigment Art — New Works by Hayley Dayis & Alexander Fals
Nu Movement
716 University Ave.
Sep 5, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Artists Hayley Dayis and Alexander Fals present their newest body of work at Nu Movement, where paintings are made not from tubes of paint, but from rare pigments painstakingly foraged by hand from Colombia’s volcanic soils.

Unlike synthetic hues that can be bought in bulk, these pigments are scarce, site-specific, and irreproducible. A single stroke of maroon or lavender on canvas may represent a color that exists nowhere else on earth, collected only once, in one season, from one patch of land. This scarcity, transformed into luminous artworks, imbues each painting with a singularity that cannot be replicated or mass-produced.

“We treat color as something precious, not disposable,” say Dayis and Fals. “Each pigment is a fragment of place, of geology, of memory. To paint with them is to honor their rarity and their story.”