Posts tagged color
from "Dutch farmers tip-toe through the tulips as landscape is transformed into a spectacular display of colour," uncredited photo, Mail Online, 8 May, 2008 :: via FFFFOUND!
It's easy to fall into modern-mechanistic metaphors when we consider the scale and scope of industrialized agriculture, but I like how this stunning aerial view calls to mind an older cultural product: the woven tapestry.
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We learn about and remember the inventions, equations, and colors that changed the world. But we can easily forget that at the time, which invention, equation, and color would prevail was an entirely open question. And then we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that changing the world is a great deal easier than it actually is.
—Culture Making, p.193
from a gallery accompanying "At the Getty Central Garden with Robert Irwin," photo by Gary Friedman, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2008
My memories of visiting the Getty Center on its hilltop, a year or two after it opened, are more of the harsh, angular warmth of Richard Meier's travertine-clad buildings and patios. The plants, in recall, were generic soutnern-California fringe, nothing like this stunning (and at the time controversial) water-maze of azaleas, which calls to mind both fingerprints and pond-ripples, each equally apt.
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color, gardens and cities
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