Comments on: shades of grey http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html a multi-disciplinary dialog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: birgit http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26815 birgit Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:37:05 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26815 Martha, Thank you for introducing me to Robert Frost. Martha,

Thank you for introducing me to Robert Frost.

]]> By: Martha http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26201 Martha Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:08:18 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26201 "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" by Robert Frost The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull; The wetter ground like glass Reflects a standing gull The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be–– The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea. They cannot look out far. They cannot look in deep. But when was that ever a bar To any watch they keep? “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep”
by Robert Frost

The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.

As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull

The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be––
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.

They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?

]]> By: Leslie Holt http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26177 Leslie Holt Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:23:43 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26177 And how that relates to my taste in art? Not sure, except I have always had trouble resolving big open spaces in my own work - I much prefer space filled with lots of little stuff... And how that relates to my taste in art? Not sure, except I have always had trouble resolving big open spaces in my own work - I much prefer space filled with lots of little stuff…

]]> By: Leslie Holt http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26176 Leslie Holt Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:22:22 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26176 Birgit, I love that first photo. There can be a lot of color in grey - it has to do with the contrast of textures you found. I don't have time to write much, but I know when I go to a completely different landscape from where I was a child, I am very aware of it. Driving out west (and then living out there) was somewhat shocking to my system- esp Montana, Idaho, Eastern Washington - the big open sky, the hugeness of everything, compared to my constant canopy of trees I was used to in Maryland. I imagine all travel makes you more aware of where you originated by sheer contrast. Birgit,
I love that first photo. There can be a lot of color in grey - it has to do with the contrast of textures you found.

I don’t have time to write much, but I know when I go to a completely different landscape from where I was a child, I am very aware of it. Driving out west (and then living out there) was somewhat shocking to my system- esp Montana, Idaho, Eastern Washington - the big open sky, the hugeness of everything, compared to my constant canopy of trees I was used to in Maryland. I imagine all travel makes you more aware of where you originated by sheer contrast.

]]> By: birgit http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26129 birgit Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:59:37 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26129 Jay, <em> I scan, therefore, I am</em> Yesterday, scanning across country from the tower of a castle, I fantasized an approaching horde. The sacking of the castle in 1425 must have fueled my imagination. Jay,

I scan, therefore, I am
Yesterday, scanning across country from the tower of a castle, I fantasized an approaching horde. The sacking of the castle in 1425 must have fueled my imagination.

]]> By: Jay Hoffman http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26089 Jay Hoffman Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:16:51 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26089 Birgit: There's a spot outside of State College, Pa. where the view extends for eighty miles. I attribute my own excitement in response to great distances to something called "savanna sense". Postulating that our apy ancestors acquired a keen sense of the sward and an avid regard for its distant contents as a means to better survive. I scan with the remnant expectation of an approaching raptor and the rapture of knowing that such a danger is remote. I scan, therefore I am. Birgit:

There’s a spot outside of State College, Pa. where the view extends for eighty miles.

I attribute my own excitement in response to great distances to something called “savanna sense”. Postulating that our apy ancestors acquired a keen sense of the sward and an avid regard for its distant contents as a means to better survive. I scan with the remnant expectation of an approaching raptor and the rapture of knowing that such a danger is remote. I scan, therefore I am.

]]> By: Jay Hoffman http://artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26084 Jay Hoffman Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:40:52 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/shades-of-grey.html#comment-26084 Birgit: They wouldn't sit still. Had a couple of French curves as a kid and they ended up flat from overuse as I drew an endless succession of imaginary airplanes. Was it the air base? As far as lining up a Mitchell or the odd f-86, I drew them not. They were great roaring apparitions as they coursed through the sky and far less interesting on the ground. I believe that Mr. Palmer has an atmospheric series of planes in and out of LAX. Birgit:

They wouldn’t sit still.

Had a couple of French curves as a kid and they ended up flat from overuse as I drew an endless succession of imaginary airplanes. Was it the air base? As far as lining up a Mitchell or the odd f-86, I drew them not. They were great roaring apparitions as they coursed through the sky and far less interesting on the ground.

I believe that Mr. Palmer has an atmospheric series of planes in and out of LAX.

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