Coloring the Sky
“Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.” – Jules Feiffer (via Brainy Quote) I love this quote. To me, it has everything to do with understanding the language of [...]
A Logic of Colors
My family and I recently had the privilege of spending some time in Languedoc-Roussillon, a region of southeastern France. The whole region, but especially the village of Roussillon, is famous for the rich deposits of ochre found in its clay. You may or may not know that ochre is one of the earliest natural pigments [...]
