Auxillary Capillary Blog Squad #2: Walking on Colors
I put my rainboots and a hoody on, and I go out into the street. The sky is dark deep blue, fading to black. I choose blue. Walking down the sidewalk, I think about blue. Tidy sign blue, dented newspaper box blue, cigarette-smoky neon blue. Meanwhile the sky is deepening, richer, darker. The clouds define patches of sky. Meanwhile, on the street, illuminated awning blue, flat telephone booth blue. All the items on the street are so flat and drab in comparison to the sky. I think about art, how impossible it is to capture the true color and texture of the natural world. Heading home, I see printed blue on ridiculous maps of Paris in a shop window, patchwork blue on a pillow, blue glass mugs. Those things I can connect to. Paper, cloth, glass. The paper evens out the pigment, softens it. The textures of the fabric chop the color into pieces, make your eye jump. The glass creates depth, imitates water. Blue.
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