On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:08 -0500, Peter ciccariello wrote:
> For me color had a life of its own, its own direction, and I
> have gravitated to different limited palettes since.
This comment on colour makes me think of free verse, also. As a way of
thinking about free verse, perhaps.
I have read that free verse is limited and so not free, according to
detractors and opponents. This is absurd when thought in colour terms.
If you attempt to use a full palette equally, thinking this makes
colours free, then what you get is a sort of lifeless grey mess that
doesn't work and so any freedom of colour fails. So restrictions or
limits are needed to free colour and make it work. (Quick summary, hope
this makes sense.)
BTW I scanned three gum leaves and also tried the eye dropper colour
method to look at the colours of these leaves as posted.
http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/02/colour-of-gum-leaves.html
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