COFA- Colour your life (Initial thoughts- brainstorm)
Imagine life without colour… would your life in black and white be as simple as it sounds? Here is an experiment we have decided to Q. the role of colour in our lives. Throughout this instruction manual you will learn how it is that colour is essential to not only how you visually see the world,but how you feel, interpret, and use the combination of these to understand the world around you on a deeper scale then we realise. (To then gain understanding in how you use it to tell your story and colour your world…)
Revolves around this idea of the grey scale perspective, that is absent from true feeling or relationship with the world. This is due to our reliance on colour to communicate and interpret to contribute to the story of the world, as well as colouring our own
black and white/ greyscale
what is colour/ how does it work (RGB etc)
The art of seeing without eyes
How it is that we explore our other senses to experience the energy of colour. Allowing ourselves to read colour through our other senses to contribute to our understanding of life (the ability to visualise colour without sound)
touch (grail exhibition/visually impaired)
smell (Drawing connections to)
Emotionally feeling colour
Our relationship with colour is imperative to how we feel and make a connection to life. Colour provides a visual reflection of our emotions, enabling the invisible to become visible. To understand our world therefore, and ourselves in it, we must be able to connect and communicate through colour.
what emotions it represents(‘feeling blue’ etc)
how language reflects colour emotions
Interpreting colour codes (Signs/symbols)
Through achieving understanding of colour we then are able to engage and interpret life around us as judged according to (our connection to) colour. We learn to read colour in relation to our surroundings and follow the pattern/coding as understood by those we communicate with. The way in which this is done can change depending on the environment, leaving us with an interesting mix of signs and symbols to use and communicate with. How we then live is directed by how we use colour coding, as well as expanding our visual emotional dictionary as signalled by colour.
signs/ symbols (culture/branding etc)
colour coding (Assorting)
using colour to interpret life
moving into this idea of creating patterns to connect —> communicate —> understand —> comprehend a story
Communicating through colour patterns
Bringing all prior research into account, by focusing on how all of which contributes to how we interpret and understand life through colour. This is drawn by how we read colour codes to gain understanding, and collectively father a pattern of information to contribute to life and our story of.
A pattern refers to a rhythm of repetition, which in itself is how we form the skill in learning the language of colour. e.g. as a child, after seeing the red repeated in the same circumstance after an amount of time it begins to resonate a connection, and therefore pattern of how we understand via emotion and interpretation (adding to the story how you see life, and so yourself)
Pattern therefore, is exactly how we come to comprehend colour on an emotion level, and further be able to interpret it’s meaning. The pattern sequences then engaging with colour to communicate a story.
How can you experiment with this?
How can colour patterns tell a story
individual/combination of colour codes to read (using visuals to connect/communicate). Give an indication. How you should feel and interpret, gather a story.
Colour blind tests: eyes follow a colour code/pattern/combo to determine/identify whether they can read/interpret the colour story
kaleidoscopic patterns alter shape and form, and so rely on colour to enable representation of the subject. Encouraging our vision to embrace this pattern as a new form of reading colour, engaging with our colour code understanding and imagination to deliver a story
colour enemies (cool/warm) o clearly reflect a sign/emotion, or confusing a situation through the mixture of the two to create a mixture of understanding and interpretation/feeling.
how we see colour differently (Cultural understanding)
optical illusions (confusion of information)
What are you going to focus on?
how we use this understanding of feeling and interpreting colour to gather the image of a story. This being done through the selective or combined rhythm of a colour pattern that then overall attributes to how we colour our life.
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