pardon the fragmented thoughts. i'm caught up amidst a day that is cut up into tiny little peices by a pair tiny time scissors that i've asked kindly to hunt jobs for me.
See at left a fawn, albino. How curious that the pigment is missing, but where follicles are concerned the absence of pigment creates a gentle snowy white (or rather, in the case of the fawn it is gentle and snowy).
I realize that follicles are composed of some sort of lines of proteins or some kind of particles that appear white, but it is strange to think of something lacking pigment and being white, when those of the art/science persuasion tend to point out that the absence of color creates a void of darkness.
i guess i'm merely pointing out the difference between a pigment which is a material that fills a plane or material, and a color, which refers to the way our eyes perceive, with pixel and rod, the frequency of light in an object. i just think that the idea of color and the way we perceive and talk about it is so wild.
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What I find remarkable is how disturbing this animal is. In all other ways, a normal baby deer. But without color? Very unsettling. This seems to suggest that color is a lot more important than it ought to be.
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