indigo

Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue.

But over the years, indigo fell out of favour because growing the crop damaged the soil excessively.

Among the other types of birds were also soras, indigo buntings and wood thrushes.

“Yeah. Those are the indigo fields. Do you know the story of how our ancestors infused the Gift into blue-glass bottles using indigo plants?”

The most seductive pieces include designs in colored ink; one square constellation of ruffled lines reminiscent of a Gothic chapel’s floor plan steps from indigo to yellow.