With a predominance of terra-cotta.Īll gardeners deal with color we struggle with it, celebrate it, work with harmonies, contrasts, light and shadow. She lives, hikes, paints and meditates on color in the desert and hills of Southern Utah, where the colors of sky, stone and life are blue, terra-cotta, and green.
I'm loving this book, even though, or perhaps because, Meloy's personal geography is so very different than mine. by the author not seen by PW."Orange is like a man convinced of his own powers," wrote the Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky.one of the many illuminating quotes in the book "The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art and Spirit," by Ellen Meloy (Random House, 2002). Knowledgeable and lyrical, Meloy's meditations should resonate with those who find sustenance in the natural world. In a restaurant her husband seats her near the door so she can "see the night sky and stars and be less likely to shriek with panic and bolt." She needs solitude so she can contemplate the things she considers essential-steep-sided canyons and their swift rivers a basket woven by a Yokuts Indian woman an ancient rock maze in the Mojave Desert a pair of placid old mules spending their retirement in a field. She finds contact with civilization jarring. But for Meloy, all colors are captivating, from the red-gold in the spines of a prickly pear glowing in the sun to the clay-red of "waterfalls cascading down lavender and crimson sandstone." Her reactions to the natural world are so intense they border on pain. The Yucatán's turquoise Caribbean coast enthralls her, as does the turquoise sea of the Bahamas. In another, she reflects whimsically on California's turquoise swimming pools. In one chapter she muses on the history and mystique of the blue-green gem. Color figures prominently here, especially turquoise, the hue of the signature stone of the region.
Meloy ( Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River) takes the reader through landscapes of pure sensation in these contemplative essays that are part Southwest travelogue, part memoir and part naturalism.
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