In the Land of Color by Forrest Wasko

On a Day 3 of our In-Depth Series with Forrest Wasko we feature his project: In the Land of Color.

AT WRITING THIS I have twice visited Santa Rosa, or northern California, and will say that this place and its colors were more vivid and chromatic than anywhere else I’ve yet lived. A part of my felt as I lived in the past, maybe forty years ago, among the smell of gasoline from the old cars and the smell of salt from the ocean. Somewhere this strange thought kept with me that these images that I took were for me to enjoy later—much later, maybe when my grandchildren found the color slides in a metal box among dust and cluttered bookshelves. I would bring them to the closest white wall, draw the curtains, and one by one show them the photographs I took for the brief time I was in the land of color. They are nothing more than that of Kodachrome slides of the ubiquitous amateur next door.

In the Land of Color
Color slides
2014