My sister sent me a picture of an excerpt. “I thought you might appreciate this,” she texted with the photo. It was a page from colour and textile designer Margrethe Odgaard’s Shades of Light. I thought I’d share the excerpt below with some photographs. It’s one of those passages that reveals itself more and more the first, second, third time you read it through.
Green is primarily and almost exclusively associated with nature. It is the color of growth, life and balance and is often attributed values such as natural, calm and sincere.
… Nature’s shades of green are endless and ubiquitous. Take the succulent, fresh and crisp shades of green found in a tender beech wood, birds chirping, everything dappled with sunlight filtering through the leafy canopy.
The blue-green tones in a calm, cool, coniferous forest with the muted sounds of swaying tree tops,
Or the iridescent metallic green eyes and wings of certain insects with an almost other-wordly sheen.
There is something disarming and soothing about green, as if our senses instinctively know that green has only the best intentions.
