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.

[zdenka]

Beautiful pictures. I love the sunlight on the grass.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Beautiful - the stretching shadows in the first especially.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

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

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

Green grass and high tides forever
Beautiful shadows and contrast.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

The second one has great movement.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, I wish we had green like that!

[marycatelli]

wow

[sovay]

That does look green to me.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[noachoc.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They really were--intensity UP!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I wish I could take you for walks here!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[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!!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

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

[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.)