What is green? What is grass?

[asakiyume]

Comments

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That second photo is lovely.

I'm not sure what Jah Cure is but I'm imagining reggae covers of The Cure.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I like your "The Cure" idea, but I think the name is more along the lines of Jah (God) cures things. "Green Grass" is about marijuana v. cocaine, heh.

[zdenka]

Beautiful pictures. I love the sunlight on the grass.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks--all the colors have been so bright these few days.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Beautiful - the stretching shadows in the first especially.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm glad some of how lovely that was came through. It was so rich and beautiful.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, the colors are so deep and so brilliant, and so magical!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They really were--intensity UP!

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

Green grass and high tides forever
Beautiful shadows and contrast.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

In the grass ones, I like how the grass glints in the sunlight.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

The second one has great movement.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And I like the three-dimensionality of it, too.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, I wish we had green like that!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I wish I could take you for walks here!

[marycatelli]

wow

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I've been saying that all yesterday and today--everything is so crisp and clear and bright.

[sovay]

That does look green to me.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

We have a consensus of two, at least, then!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

That second photo looks like a painting that I would love to find my way into. :D

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe at least in dreams? And maybe one day in real life.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

There's a wonderful passage in the strange, magical book, The Fair to Middling, (Calder-Marshall) spelling out how unseeing it is to dismiss grass as simply "green". "But what is green?" exclaims Emma in frustration; she is colour-blind, but nevertheless sees more than those who just suppose that grass is green and don't look.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes: one very salient characteristic can keep us from noticing others, but if you have no reference for the first, then you notice those others.

I think of black-and-white movies, and how they emphasized textures and light balance and things like that in ways that many color movies don't, because TA-DAH!!! COLOR!!

[noachoc.livejournal.com]

We do forget over the winter, don't we?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What I find is how poor and weak the images in my memory are compared to the real thing.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I'm picturing here the one child in the class who draws grass as yellow instead of green, because the sun is shining on it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's so hard to represent sunlight on grass! And sometimes you feel like you can't trust your eyes, or that if you draw what you see, it won't look right.

(in other words, my heart goes out to that one kid.)