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13 responses to ““color isn’t real” jude hill”
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i guess i really became aware of this when i started taking photos at different times of the day.
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i think this is the bottom line
of what they are all talking about
of why artists so love the light of New Mexico
you can get completely lost
completely lost
within a mile’s distance here in the desert
because the whole world you thought you knew changes
in color
in shape
in reality
with lightLikeLike
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ahhhh.. observations dear to my heart! We discuss this in my Design/color theory class, how confusing would it be in the world if we didn’t agree on things having their own “color”? So says the color constancy effect… that everything is assigned a color based on a sunny day at noon. I do believe it would be quite something if we had to describe subtleties in color all the time, alas, I think that’s what painters are for! Monet being a good one for that.
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beautiful photographs. beautiful words. i once painted my three rooms in three descending shades of peach so that they would all look the same at any given time.
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i could actually center my day around taking photographs of this piece of hand dyed gauze*. it lends itself to receiving light, to
responding to light, transforming in light. i am overwhelmed by
it’s beauty. right now, it is just draped over the curtain rod
atop the regular curtain panels. soon, not too long now, it will
remain warm enough for me to take down the regular panels and
allow this cloth to be there on its own. as i watch it now, i
imagine what that will be like….it’s hard to wait.
*a gift from nance from her trip to MoroccoLikeLike
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i dont know the light of New Mexico but
i now the light of the Netherlands
the light of the south of France
the light of Morocco………………….i think it would be great to travel those different lights not only with paints but with a camera!
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i’m glad you are enjoying it… i really love that photo of the crinkled edge… i think you could make a blurb book just of photos of light on this one piece of gauze.
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yes… the light is so different in the three places you mention… i travel with a camera…. not so much focuse on light but the light becomes a subject anyway. netherlands is so far north… like here in portland or…not quite as north but still so much different from the south of france and morocco where the sun is out so much of the time… its closer to the equator so harsher … i love the soft light of the northern areas though. i have photos from morocco on my blog side bar… and from japan too, if you are interested…
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i will get back here about this thought with some new
info. if i can find it….
this is really interesting to me.
based on a sunny day at noon…..hmmmmmLikeLike
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there is a temptation…it is totally fascinating me.
did you have it out at your house????LikeLike
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martine…more and more i agree…travel with camera.
funny, because i was kind of a uhhh, oh luddite about
digital cameras, but also was never good at the SLRs
since i’ve had this one, i find what actually amount
to parallel worlds for me through photographing things.LikeLike
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anytime anyone wants to talk about light in other
parts of the world, i am fascinated…just love hearing
about it.LikeLike
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If you go the Wikipedia page for color constancy, there’s some info on there about this….
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