{"product_id":"painted-minerals","title":"Painted Minerals","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour in any painting on any wall in any house is, somewhere back in its history, ground rock. Pigment is mineral, and mineral is what the earth has been mixing and pressing for several billion years. The blue in the bedroom of a child born last year was, at some point, lapis lazuli in a quarry in Afghanistan. The yellow on a kitchen ceiling was ochre on a hillside in France. The colour world we live in has a longer history than any of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis ridge is one of the rocks pigment used to come from. The white bands are gypsum, the rust streaks iron, the grey patches a mix nobody bothered to name. Folded sideways by tectonic pressure twenty million years ago, worn back into stripes by water and wind, with an autumn forest at the base doing its small annual repaint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelongs in the same shelf as \u003cem\u003eBasin and Range\u003c\/em\u003e by John McPhee, \u003cem\u003eColour: A Natural History of the Palette\u003c\/em\u003e by Victoria Finlay, or any book about pigment at the long end of its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fine Art of Bookmarks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58112176292224,"sku":"TFAOB-S18-B088","price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2346\/9440\/files\/painted-minerals-fine-art-bookmark-fine-art-bookmark-cover.jpg?v=1780057131","url":"https:\/\/thefineartofbookmarks.com\/products\/painted-minerals","provider":"The Fine Art Of Bookmarks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}