Sunflower 🌻 Playing With Pigment
Created by jimmyinspazZz
6 photographs of a
Sunflower🌻grown in my yard in North Eugene during the summer of 2010. Color fascinates spazZz to a great degree.
Which has led to Playing With Pigment in some photos. By subtracting every hue, except for one from a photograph. Colors are blended into one object consistency by our ocular system. Between the eyes 👁️ and brain 🧠 perception of mental images known as "vision" are produced.
Gestalt Theory has explained how our cognitive system connects the dots for reality. These concepts of mental regurgitation are a necessity for humans realistic understanding of the scattered elements of the subjective.
Color is a hands on way to experiment with perception. Painting has always been fun for this reason. Characteristics like tone, shade and depth or properties such as hue, brightness and saturation.
These characteristics and properties make up the visual elements of perception. Arguably the sense of sight is the most utilized and constructive of our phenomenal sensory systems.
Original Photograph
Orange pigment only🧡
Sunflowers were domesticated in the Americas. In North America sunflowers have been dated to 2300BCE in Tennessee. Older domestications dating back to Mexico.
Indigenous folks symbolized the sunflower as a solar deity representing power and strength. A staple food of natives who were also known by the pejorative "savages".
Sunflowers are introduced to the explorers who ironically were the real savages.
One of the first known acts of psychological projection which is a defense mechanism. (A joke that is true, but a different subject). These savage explorers and settlers took sunflower seeds back to Europe in the 1500's.
Russia got a hold of the oily seeds in the 1600's distilling sunflower seed oil. Russian Orthodox Church was a big promotor in 1800's. During lent only plant-based oils are allowed for fasting.
By the 1900's the oil was made at industrial scales in Russia. Today Russia and the Ukraine grow 53% of 50 million tons grown annually.
Green pigment only 💚
Sunflowers are inflorescence which makes them a flower head. Although the large head looks like one flower it is in fact a lot of little flowers bunched together. An example of a flower head would be a rose 🌹or tulip 🌷
A flower head is a type of pseudanthium which means 'false flower'. This is evolutions way of fitting the most amount of reproductive units possible acting as one pollinator.
Red pigment only ❤️
Sunflowers were planted at Chernobyl, Fukushima Japan and old Soviet missile basis. Radioactive elements cesium,arsenic, uranium and strontium are absorbed by the plants roots. This is called phytoextraction which also includes absorbing pollutants cadmium, copper and zinc.
Using sunflowers to clear pollution from our soil and ponds is named phytoremediation. Others plants which are known to be used in this manner are amaranthus, cockscomb and field mustard.
The sunflower is the national flower of the Ukraine and the State flower of Kansas.
The sunflower is the symbol for the Vegan Society
The sunflower pins or lanyards are the visible symbol for hidden disabilities. A scheme created in airports or railways enabling employees to locate disabled folks. During COVID savages used these sunflower emblems to avoid wearing masks. Tisk-tisk
Yellow pigment only 💛
Sunflowers seed flowers grow in Fibonacci numbers with successive left and right spirals. The tiny flowers grow at an angle of 137.5 degrees toward neighbor approximately the golden angle.
This creates a form of Fermat's spiral which in which distance of curves is proportional to center. A form that can be found in cyclotrons, plant growth models and spiral galaxies.
Blue pigment only 💙Blue pigment is the light emitted from the sun ☀️ which allows the sunflower to have a circadian rhythm. An immature sunflower is heliotropic which means moves 180 degrees west to east with sun.
The youthful Helianthus annuus reorient east overnight to embrace the morning rays. Once regulated to this motion the baby plant will continue even without light.
The mature sunflower however does not follow a light source. Adult sunflowers face east at all times in order to embrace the morning rays. Facing the sun attracts two birds instead of none (instead of killing two birds with one gun)
1 allows for energy production through photosynthesis
2 warming up fast in a.m. which attracts pollinators
Atamian, Hagop S.; Creux, Nicky M.; Brown, Evan A.; Garner, Austin G.;
Blackman, Benjamin K.; Harmer, Stacey L. (2016-08-05). "Circadian
Animation created by combining the previous six photographs 💛 of sunflower aka Helenthius annuus against blurry trees and sky Playing With pigment.
