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Monument Valley, Arizona, USA. (All Photos: © Tom Jacobi)

There is a technique in art known as grisaille, in which an artist will create a work entirely from shades of grey. Sometimes it is used simply because it’s cheaper; sometimes it is an undercoat; and sometimes it is employed to create a three-dimensional effect.

In his new book Grey Matter(s), Tom Jacobi's work could be described as photographic grisailles: tranquil scenes composed entirely of landscapes that are devoid of color.

Jacobi’s interest in a monochrome palette began on a trip to the Antarctic. Instead of finding a world of blue and white, he discovered that much of what he saw was grey. “No color was screaming for attention," Jacobi recalls in the introduction to his book. “That grey landscape radiated unbelievable energy and meditative calm.”

To capture this de-saturated world in landscapes as wide-ranging as Arizona, New Zealand and Iceland, Jacobi photographed as light shifted between day and night. As twilight fell, landscapes seemed, he writes, “like mystical enactments from some other world.” Atlas Obscura has a selection of Jacobi’s worlds of hushed grey.


Date: 2016-05-05 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mee-eep.livejournal.com
The boulders look like Dragon eggs, the grey gives a foggy mystical feel to the image

Date: 2016-05-07 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charisstoma.livejournal.com
That is what I thought when I saw the photo, dragon's eggs.

Probably were killed by the sea water.... unless they're water dragon's eggs and are still in that evolutionary stage of laying eggs out of water but need them to be near the water. hmmmm

Date: 2016-05-07 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mee-eep.livejournal.com
The waves lull the sleeping baby as it grows and gains strength, the roaring waves comforting as the rumbling fire of it's mother's chest. Then when the time is right the moon pulls the ocean away and in the shallows the eggs begin to crack. Little faces rising to taste the air and burp their first flame. Smooth shallow water washing away shell and adding sparkle to scale before the little Dragons dive deep to where their proud parents wait to lift them soaringly into the night skies.

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If you look close you can see the lines as the eggs begin to crack!

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