The People Who Were Turned Into Paint

less than 1m read

·Nov 10, 2024

There are four people in this painting. Three of them are made out of paint. The fourth is the paint.

The interior of a kitchen was painted in 1815, and like many paintings from that time, one of the colors used in it was mummy Brown, a pigment literally made from the ground up dried flesh of ancient mummies.

Today, we hollow mummies as fragile time capsules, but in the 1700s, there was a thriving mummy trade between Egypt and Europe. Ground up mummy was believed to have mystic healing powers, and the oil paints that could be made from it were highly valued.

So, mummy Brown was used in countless paintings for hundreds of years. It wasn't until the late 1800s that people began to really question its use. The dwindling supply of mummies didn't help either, and so it began to fall out of fashion.

The people who were turned into paint didn't ask to be. What they wanted was immortality, and they may have got what they wanted, but they also got an afterlife they didn't expect. Not one for their personal souls, but one for the anonymous beauty of the rotten, tari darkness.

Anyone can become… [Music]

Cao Dai's History in Vietnam | The Story of God

How to Make Money on YouTube from Day 1 (Without Ads, Subs or Sponsorships)

View All

Artist Makes 3-D Portraits From DNA Found on Gum, Cigarette Butts, and Fingernails | Short Film

So it all started with wondering what I could learn about someone from that little piece of themself that they left behind. A walk around the city, and everywhere you see these genetic artifacts—little clues that could tell you something about a person. I…

Using GPT as an English Tutor to Improve My Language Skills

Student: “Hello. Hi there. How’s it going? Nice. I’d like to have a chat with English tutor and maybe you can help uh improve my language skills.” Tutor: “Absolutely. I’d love to help with that. What would you like to focus on today? Conversations, gramm…

Interpreting equations graphically (example 2) | Mathematics III | High School Math | Khan Academy

Let F of T be ( e^{2T} - 2T^2 ) and H of T be ( 4 - 5T^2 ). The graphs of Y = F(T) and Y = H(T) are shown below. So, Y = F(T) is here in green, so this is really ( Y = e^{2T} - 2T^2 ). We see F(T) right over there, and Y = H(T) is shown in yellow. Alrigh…

Humanity's Fascination with Mars | MARS

Dreamers of space have always had their eyes there, their hopes, their aspirations on getting to Mars. It has to look at the sky, saw that thought, and wondered what’s on it. As soon as people understood what planets were, some of them said, “Wouldn’t it …

“Let Them Scream Whatever They Want” | Marcus Aurelius on Panic

How should we act when people around us are panicking? And how can we avoid panicking ourselves? Panic gets us nowhere, as it is a state of emotional turmoil during which our rationality is thrown overboard. So when we’re faced with a wide variety of opin…

Reading multiple accounts of the same topic | Reading | Khan Academy

Hello readers. There’s a famous Japanese movie from 1950 called Rashomon, which is about different perspectives on a horrible crime scene. This is a film for adults, definitely consult your parent or guardian. In the film, you witness four distinct accoun…

The People Who Were Turned Into Paint

More Articles