"Blue Mountains Fall" is a painting that uses "disassociated color" — color that is detached from representation. The sky was not brown and the ground was not blue, but in the context of the painting, the colors work together. No color that an artist selects can truly match reality. Mimiciking nature or "capturing the light" is a relative perception. The inspiration for this version of Blue Mountains came from an unlikely source — a computer generated, photo-manipulated version of the original photo.