A Change of Mind:
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Excerpt from The New Color Photography, by Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, NY 1981
Joyce Culver is concerned with what Syl Labrot called the "iridescent nature of colors which seem to live in an object." Taking advantage of the ability of chromatic intensity to upset the spatial order established by tones, she inflects fields of color with selected notes of vivid chroma. In Fence, blue leaves and purple grapes painted on a cast-iron fence seem to detach and dance upon the picture surface.
Such color oscillations subvert the representation of natural space. Culver uses the resultant non sequiturs for abstract and occasionally narratively suggestive purposes. In Mailboxes, red and white Christmas tree ornaments on an evergreen tree, postal stickers on two mailboxes, and the crimson berries on a hedge provide color-keyed counterpoint to a fantasyland aura. The Christmas tree inclines toward a light post while one of its branches seems to grasp at the white rim of the post's rain guard, which, in turn, tilts as jauntily as the brim of a Southern gentleman's fedora. A white-boled palm tree, rising from behind the hedge, injects the spirit of Christmas in Florida or even suggests a studio set constructed to showcase Ronald McDonald and his friends for a Floridian version of Christmas in Burgerland.
Joyce Culver is concerned with what Syl Labrot called the "iridescent nature of colors which seem to live in an object." Taking advantage of the ability of chromatic intensity to upset the spatial order established by tones, she inflects fields of color with selected notes of vivid chroma. In Fence, blue leaves and purple grapes painted on a cast-iron fence seem to detach and dance upon the picture surface.
Such color oscillations subvert the representation of natural space. Culver uses the resultant non sequiturs for abstract and occasionally narratively suggestive purposes. In Mailboxes, red and white Christmas tree ornaments on an evergreen tree, postal stickers on two mailboxes, and the crimson berries on a hedge provide color-keyed counterpoint to a fantasyland aura. The Christmas tree inclines toward a light post while one of its branches seems to grasp at the white rim of the post's rain guard, which, in turn, tilts as jauntily as the brim of a Southern gentleman's fedora. A white-boled palm tree, rising from behind the hedge, injects the spirit of Christmas in Florida or even suggests a studio set constructed to showcase Ronald McDonald and his friends for a Floridian version of Christmas in Burgerland.
