Primitive Dye for Painting Cultural Art

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People have been making art since the beginning of human existence. The ability and desire to create is something that distinguishes us from all other life on Earth. Man used whatever materials available to express the images in his mind and in this video I make a dye from the cochineal insect to paint art on three different materials.

Cochineal is a parasitic scale insect that lives on Opuntia cactuses and produces a crimson dye that was very important to Aztec and Mayan cultures of Mexico. When the Spanish learned of cochineal it quickly became one of the most important exports of Mexico until other dye manufacturers beat out the competition and the cochineal industry eventually collapsed.

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Camera: Nikon D7200
Sound: Zoom H4N
Editing: Final Cut Pro X on MacBook Air
Location: California

Image credits:

Cochineal (Original image was visually enhanced and cropped)
Frank Vincentz [CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]

Coyote gourd (Original image was visually enhanced and cropped)
Stan Shebs
This image was originally posted to Flickr by ilya_ktsn at https://www.flickr.com/photos/62313790@N00/5225967652. It was reviewed on 13 July 2014 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

Music credits:

Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400021
Artist: http://incompetech.com/