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It was unclear whether the dot was made with ochre, a natural clay pigment.

Heading west from the Miracle Mile area, the eerie drift of smoke under a midmorning sun bathed the landscape in amber and ochre.

While sunflower stars have not recovered, adult ochre sea stars on rocky shores are growing in size and number to what was measured before the disease epidemic.

Mike Love is sitting in a blah-looking room in a Sheraton hotel in North Carolina, the garish pattern of his signature Hawaiian shirt popping against the ochre wallpaper behind him.

In the resulting enigmatic dreamscapes, muted purples, cornflower blues and soft ochres bloom and spatter and fleck in surprising, delicate ways.