Titanox White 

Editor: Here we have "Titanox White" by F. Weber & Company, Inc., housed at the Harvard Art Museums. It's a bottle of pigment, seemingly untouched by an artist. The muted color palette and ghostly remnants of pigment evoke a sense of artmaking's unseen potential. What do you see in this piece? Curator: It's like a ghost of creation, isn't it? This humble bottle whispers of countless paintings, each brushstroke born from this very powder. It's a memento mori, reminding us that even the purest white carries the weight of artistic intention, of stories waiting to be told. Does it inspire you to imagine what stories the pigment was used to tell? Editor: It does! The unused pigment makes me think of all the possibilities. Thanks for helping me look at it differently. Curator: My pleasure! It seems that sometimes the beauty is in the potential rather than the execution.