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The Colour Green

Chapter of: Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World(pp. 163–181)

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TitleThe Colour Green
ContributorPrudence Gibson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0207.1.14
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/covert-plants/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightGibson, Prudence
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-09-11
Long abstractHuman representations of nature, as green, are prolific. The his-tory of the colour — as pigments mixed by artists, as iconic sculp-tural motifs of green figures, as environmental politics and as more recent philosophies of plant life — has influenced a battle between conventions of nature’s expression and changing per-ceptions of the vegetal world. This chapter addresses the colour green as an aesthetic, cultural, and political tool.Living cells, capable of performing photosynthesis, first ap-peared on earth more than three and half billion years ago.2Plant life was later charted in the creationist doctrine as the earth sprouted vegetation on the third day, when plants yielded seeds and trees bore fruit...and God thought it was good.3 Conversely, Derek Jarman writes of the Garden of Eden (and of Adam and Eve’s eviction from it, post apple-eating) and recalls the angry Adam hacking down the Tree of Knowledge to build the first house.4 Such terrible irony: as the utopian garden was lost and with that first tree slaughtered by man’s hand, as Jarman believed, we began our environmental demise. Climate change is biting at our heels, and all mythic and philosophical stories of ‘green’ can now be seen with the eco-eyes of hindsight and reclaimed as a vibrant slice of the colour wheel.
Page rangepp. 163–181
Print length19 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)