Re: tonal inversion and pigment loads

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Katharine Thayer wrote:

> .... I now define pigment stain as pigment deposited where
> it doesn't belong, and I define tonal inversion as a special case of pigment
> stain. . If you don't share my views on this, and if we are going to try to
> talk about this using completely different definiitions for pigment stain,
> then we're just going to go around and around in circles.

If one is printing as I did, deliberately seeking the effect, the
definition "pigment where it doesn't belong" doesn't work. You
might say a "not normal" tone or "reversal," or even Gum Sabatier -- but
I doubt the phenomenon is going to be pinned down -- as discussions of gum
on this list quite clearly foretell.

Leading me to mark a passage in a January 9, 2006 New Yorker article
about climate, as follows:

QUOTE (page 37):

"The trick you've got to remember is that climate is multivariate," Webb
explained. "The plant species are having to respond both to temperature
changes and to moisture changes and to changes in seasonality. It makes
a big difference if you have a drier winter versus a drier summer.... Any
current community has a certain mixture, and, if you start changing the
climate, you're changing the temperature, but you're also changing
moisture or the timing of the moisture or the amount of snow, and....."

Etc.

Gum is at least as multivariate, including because we're all
geographically separate.

Judy
Received on Sat Jan 28 23:55:27 2006