6/5/24

Pink Mortar

Mortar is colored by adding pigment to the mix. The finer pigment particles become a part of the mortar matrix as the mortar is mixed with water. The pigments do not dye the material but disperse and surround the material in the mortar once it's mixed.

Two blue flecks.

Balance Due. East St Louis. 2012

5/19/24

Indeed

My earliest memory is of my dad shoveling coal down the chute for the furnace. I was almost two.
Christy, he had said, Go back inside.