Blue then


How blue? Why blue?


I cant stop thinking about the idea that humans didn't see blue, UV yes but not blue. 

 Perhaps we learn to see blue.

 Unless you notice the blue you cant see blue

 Sea blue, See blue, Sea Blue, See Blue.
Blao -- shimmering lusterous


Homers sea is 'Wine-Dark'

6,000 years ago there was no word for Blue.

 Can that be right?

 To see blue you have to name the blue you see. 

 Blue maybe was the shade like white to black. or it was green and sometimes yellow

 The Egyptians invented blue.. and was made famous by the Virgin Mary ., she probably didn't wear blue. 


I've writing about blue before, I remember badly. Twilight, a time for possibilities  an uncertain time. 

 Your eyes struggle to see at twilight, Rods and Cones are working badly together !!   Spielberg  and Crewdson, place their worlds in-the dark Prussian blue make believe place. Suburban out-lands  no-places build on some place, Meadow Road, Forest Street. Violet place. The Grove. Subsuming the land into a no place.

 These places I visit are some places. Odd places old places, my places, dark places. Places that weigh heavy.

 Each place wild in its way, damaged and continuing, reshaped  , by the elements, by people.
A state of our time.

 Pale blue hums of the reactor. an under pinning drone to the modern silence, always and underpinning drone.

 Still Tees, warm outflow, Curlew calls, soft blue sounds. Unexpected stillness. The sun the plan the seals call of the summer. 

 Blue still water. 

 Why print a body in blue/ 

 True blue honest Tees/ walking naked in the estuary/ the print is 










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_colour_vision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue



 Creation of colour / Perception of Colour / 

 Cyanotypes are magical dirty chemical acid yellows , transform though application of UV light , displacing some iron... ( there is something about cyanide in here) and bonding to the paper or cloth.

 The results are a blue. from Cyan to a deep Prussian blue. Every batch yields a shift, some seems to have more iron that others. Some fabrics give a deeper blue, than others.  

 I love the science of it although I'm not much of a scientist. 
'Blue is the invisible becoming visible. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond the dimensions of which other colours partake.'    Yves Klein

 true blue,” lapis lazuli

Ultramarinus, meaning “beyond the sea”

Cobalt blue __ Parish Blue

Indigofera tinctoria

bio-indigo

Berliner Blau, Prussian blue

YInMn blue,    https://mymodernmet.com/new-blue-crayon/
Full of bitter and blue ruin ( Tom Waits)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide

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