complementary color

is a mutual anchor --- Green takes root in red. Blue slips and slides over red.

Green takes root in red. Blue slips and slides over red. Chromatic complements are each other’s mutual anchors. 5 Fog turns objects into a shadow theater playing over objects farther behind, like shadows within shadows. Then, as the fog lifts “ in a succession of unmaskings,” the landscape for an instant seems to be coming straight at us, like a face rudely ripping its mask off much too close to our own—not unlike those eerie faces, the “spiritual masks” of certain startlingly original thinkers, whose swift leaps of thought pounce on us like wild beasts. Who hasn’t experienced the sudden revelations that overwhelm us in the writings of certain authors, like being struck full in the face? What better proof of immortality than the way the thoughts of dead writers come to life in their books to gnaw at our faces like a lover leaping on his beloved’s face as if he were going to tear it to shreds.

complementary color, n.All

complementary color