J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Cig Harvey
Episode #31 Summary
Blue Violet is a sensual field guide to flowers, colors, encounters in nature and the landscape of relationship boldly announcing ‘our place in the family of things’.*
Episode Notes
Cig Harvey’s fourth monograph celebrates the sacred and the profane in lush, glossy, saturated color. In a hefty book of french-fold pages, Harvey’s courageous exploration of visual storytelling of form and narrative is chronicled in image and text. Utilizing the medium of photography to illuminate the quotidian, Harvey reflects our human paradox—the unbearable lightness of being.
In this book group, Cig Harvey discusses, among other things:
The camera as a ouija board
The subconsciousness of sequencing
Living with senses wide open everyday
Color as subject
Photographing with a point of view
Flowers as healing agents and as reflecting the ephemeral nature of life
The push and pull of a strong image
Knowing the seasons of your own creative clock
Referenced in the episode
You Look At Me Like An Emergency
You An Orchestra You A Bomb
Gardening At Night
Interactions of Color - by Josef Albers
Modern Nature - by Derek Jarman
Wednesday is Indigo Blue - by Cytowic and Eagleman
The History of Bees - by Maja Lunde
InHarmonicity, The Tonal Walkway - by Julianne Swartz