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Lee Woodman’s Colorscapes is both an artistic and spiritual culmination of a lifetime spent seeing the world through pigment and perception. Known for her interdisciplinary curiosity, Woodman fuses art history, philosophy, and poetry into a meditation on how color shapes human experience. This collection feels like the gathering of all her earlier landscapes (art, home, life, mind, and soul) into one luminous prism. The collection begins with a preface that immediately situates Woodman’s voice between wonder and intellect. “My life has been drenched in color,” she writes, recalling her childhood in India surrounded by “the rich oranges and red spices in the marketplace” and “the wild combos of yellows, greens, and purples in women’s saris.” This background explains the vivid saturation in her work; every line feels painted, not written. Her early exposure to art and later years at the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress come alive through poems that treat color as both science and spirit. In “Black Is Not a Color,” she explores the paradox of absence and depth, suggesting that black “absorbs everything but gives back reflection.” In “The Many Faces of Green,” she refutes Wassily Kandinsky’s claim that green is anesthetizing, showing instead that it … Continue reading Colorscapes
