Contrast

It’s the orange-yellow time of year, when leaves lose chlorophyll and expose those autumnal colors, replacing an array of greens that define our summer warmth. Somehow each year, it surprises me.

It’s worth looking closely at colors and textures at this time of year. I’m especially drawn to those images that capture both our natural and human-made world, as this image does. It feels to me like a minor form of hubris – human earthworks, tinkering with things that weren’t necessarily broken. 

Yet the irony is that our human devices are subject to the same decay as in the natural world. Corrosion and rust ultimately claim the day. And the colors. The colors are much the same.