Colors are like a calendar; the passage of time is charted by the landscape’s color shifts. Colors can also act as an indicator of other environmental changes. Studied over time, they may point to a shift in the times when certain plants sprout and bloom or when the rains begin and end. Colors also carry a psychological impact, subtly affecting our personal relationships with place. If the landscape is manipulated, changing the progression and patterns of color, what impact does that have on us?
Most predominant colors in the landscape of the Olympic National Forest’s High Divide Loop (7 Lakes Basin Trail) between September 19 – September 23 arranged vertically by predominance and horizontally by time/location: 5 days, 5 locations, 5 miles apart with a 3050 ft. elevation change.
The title taken From Rebecca Solnit’s collection of essays on landscape, gender and art, As Eve Said to the Serpent. Thoreau’s ideas on walking opened this essay. …’He praises what walking can do for thinking. Walking is nearly alone among all our human activities in its poise between doing something and doing nothing; it is not idleness, and yet as the legs move and the eyes gaze, the mind can roam with a kind of discipline hardly possible in an armchair, As the rhythm of the walk is interrupted by the surprises and irregularities of the landscape, so ideas arise from lengthy concentration interrupted by epiphanies.’
- Subject Matter: Abstract Landscape
- Created: 2011
- Collections: Distillations of Place