ROET
Soot is impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete burning of organic matter. While the black carbon in it is one of the biggest causes of the hothouse effect, pure carbon molecules are present in all known life forms and essential to all living systems.
Martens & Visser use this coal-black material as a fabric dye. A set of instruments is used as tools for collecting and processing the soot. The pigment is collected by burning oil inside the lamp.
- Photography Martens & Visser, Raw Color
Soot is impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete burning of organic matter. While the black carbon in it is one of the biggest causes of the hothouse effect, pure carbon molecules are present in all known life forms and essential to all living systems.
Martens & Visser use this coal-black material as a fabric dye. A set of instruments is used as tools for collecting and processing the soot. The pigment is collected by burning oil inside the lamp.
*’Roet’, Dutch for soot. Photography: Martens & Visser, Raw Color
