In A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit writes:
“For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen for here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you want to go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains. Blue is the color of longing for the distances we never arrive in, for the blue of the world.”
Mountains Beyond Mountains is a series made about the visual and emotional phenomena created by blue. As an immigrant who has moved extensively while in the United States, the longing for “the color where you are not” has always been persistent.