Spontaneous Vegetation

Inkmaker Thomas Little of A Rural Pen Thomas is an amateur ink historian and ink maker, based in Sampson county, NC. He makes and sells iron based pigments derived from firearms processed in his makeshift laboratory in the woods. He is currently working on other applications for his pigments, including recording sound in black magnetite ink stripes. He has taught several workshops and curated an exhibit on historic pigments and ink, and was a speaker at the first Pigments Revealed Symposium. His interests in the alchemy of images and substances informs his work. @a.rural.pen