Fine analysis of the leaves Chris. However, even Photoshop presents an
infinite spectrum to sample. I like your association to free verse, perhaps
word association, phonetic association - language having something akin to a
color spectrum, choosing words for another reason than intrinsic
meaning...as in visual poetry, word shape, word sound, letter form and
structure. Letter form particularly interests me. Evocative form, ascenders,
descenders, positive and negative space. x- height. How does all this affect
the metaphorical value and transition from symbol, icon, mark to
letter/character meaning/content? I have been experimenting a lot with
'match color' (only in PS CS3/4. enabling you to distill an image’s color
spectrum and save, load and apply to another into the same chosen color
range, I see this not unlike finding common ground with several source texts
or using constrained writing techniques ('littérature potentielle')
finding/forcing similar characteristics or associations in image or
language.
- Peter
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> This comment on colour makes me think of free verse, also. As a way of
> thinking about free verse, perhaps.
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> 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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