Our feelings are often associated with colours that
influence everything we do in our daily lives. They
impact our decisions, actions, and perceptions.
influence everything we do in our daily lives. They
impact our decisions, actions, and perceptions.
This abstract photographic series considers the
relationship between the nature of emotion, shape,
patterns and colours, which is used as a metaphor
for understanding the human condition that
connects us all.
relationship between the nature of emotion, shape,
patterns and colours, which is used as a metaphor
for understanding the human condition that
connects us all.
In art theory, feelings are often associated with colour. Picasso, perhaps more than any other artist, embodies this in his work. His Blue Period was a manifestation of grief at the loss of a friend to suicide. For the next 3 years, his depictions of those he saw as clinging to the fringes of society were imbued with a ghostly blue wash of despair. Later in life, in happier times, he spoke of spending days walking through the verdant forests outside Paris, until he was so 'full of green' that he had to rid himself of it in a painting.
While we may not all feel the effects of colour quite so literally as Picasso, it can undoubtedly both influence and reflect our moods. In turn, our perceptions, decisions, and actions are all influenced by our emotions. But our response to colour is complex and personal. Each of us will have our own unique perception of colour. Is the red I see the same as the red you see? How can we know for sure? Why does one person love a certain shade of green, when for someone else that particular colour seems hideous?
Private Story
The Colours of Emotion
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