Thursday, February 5, 2015

White/Color


More snow came last night. Not a lot more, but now it is blowing and the white ground is blowing up into the air, blurring ground and sky. The blur is beautiful.

White is as essential as color to my work. Instead of white as background, white is the object, the defined elements: the animal or word or botanicals. By making white the concrete elements, color dominates just by occupying more space. Delightfully, color can be free, unattached, and itself: just color.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Flocking color



As we go forward in life, how often do we think about color? Certainly we do when selecting what to wear or put on the wall. It's not so much thinking though. It's liking, or not liking. It's feeling good about it or not. It's feeling good about what it does for you or for your surroundings. Feeling color.

I once had the experience of being asked to move together with others as a group, as if I was in a flock of birds. It called for trust in peripheral vision. It made me think of how much of our lives are spent thinking about moving forward. But what about how we feel on that journey, what's alongside? How about what surrounds us? How about the color that we like, that lifts us up?

These are 2 color charts: the same colors reproduced on different materials(the softer crepe de chine silk and brighter polyester silk faille). The colors groupings started the same but the materials took them on different journeys. The 2 charts show how much color shifts and how they influence each other in that shift. The colors flock together; different material/ different feeling.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

February 3, 2015: Full Moon

It's February. Outside - it's white. And cold. This is the time of year color stands out in contrast to the outdoors in New England.
With this in mind I am starting my next project: a calendar, full of color. This calls for 12 individual pieces. But since the 12 pieces need to come together as a whole, it is best to select the colors as a group. Each month needs to stand on its own. At the end, the whole year should come together as a whole. My hope: every month, several colors to love. At then end of the year - colors moving across a spectrum: lots of color to love!