Josef Albers’ Color Class, Summer 1944, Gelatin silver photograph by Josef Breitenbach
Josef Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and later became a faculty member in 1922. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he was promoted to professor. After the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States. He was appointed head of the painting program at the experimental liberal arts institution Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he taught students such as Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg.
regarded as a fluke,
we find ourselves
here, seeking clarity;
an intent subsumed
by guiltless ire.
at hand, these claims
lay before us
as they were; mere impressions
upon a landscape scarred
by the tread of progress.
so. I was going through Black Mountain, you know. Killing super mutants. Basic procedure. And then ED-E gets knocked out and I'm like "oh there must have been a mutant in one of the shacks (I was near the crater) and I turn around
The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina. They are part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest mountains in the Eastern United States. The range takes its name from the dark appearance of the red spruce and Fraser fir trees that form a spruce-fir forest on the upper slopes which contrasts with the brown (during winter) or lighter green (during the growing season) appearance of the deciduous trees at lower elevations. The Eastern Continental Divide, which runs along the eastern Blue Ridge crest, intersects the southern tip of the Black Mountain range.
The Black Mountains are home to Mount Mitchell State Park, which protects the range's highest summits in the central section of the range. Much of the range is also protected by the Pisgah National Forest. The Blue Ridge Parkway passes along the range's southern section, and is connected to the summit of Mount Mitchell by North Carolina Highway 128. The Black Mountains are mostly located in Yancey County, although the range's southern and western extremes run along the Buncombe County line.
While the crest of the Black Mountain range is just 15 miles long, within these fifteen miles are 18 peaks climbing to at least 6,300 feet above sea level. The Black Mountains rise prominently above the surrounding lower terrain. This is particularly noticeable from the range's eastern side, which rises over 4,500 feet above the Catawba River Valley and Interstate 40, providing some impressive mountain scenery.
*Pictured is the Black Mountain Range at Sunset from atop the overpass on I-40 at Dysartsville Road in Burke County, NC. The impressive Black Mountain Range to the west dominates the horizon at sunset.
(Photo by Carolina Vann)
-Edited to add: The “Black Mountain Range” is not to be confused with the town of Black Mountain, North Carolina that’s located in Buncombe County.