Society as we know it today may seem at points really grey and monotonous at times, but in my opinion, in most cases, if you look at the small details, you will find out we are obsessed with colors, even in our every day life.
Imagine waking up, going to work, seeing your colleagues and breaking this conversation:?
-“hi how are you?”?
– “fine, and you?”?
– “good, thank you”?
And from there on work goes on, another day comes, and the same conversation all over again. Like an endless loop without any point or interest. Just being still like a sculpture.?
But not in reality, and this is where color comes in to the story, I believe our soul is built like a tray that carry things on it, it can be things that happened to you, opinions, philosophies and even believes. this is what makes life more complicated and interesting, the source for trouble and solutions at the same time.?
I feel like everyone trying to achieve some level of balance on the tray they carry, moving things around, adding good on bad and bad on good in order to find the balance between not too full or too empty, and between completely flipping the tray over. This balance that we seek for, as an individual forces us into all sorts of situations and feelings. And when you start to look for it in other people or in yourself, you may find people to almost look like they are brushed with a different color of paint anytime they try to balance the tray.?Happiness, sadness, hope, fear… is it all feelings? Or just colors that we can paint over? Dose every layer leaves a mark on us?
Is an argument presents a fight between different life perspectives or just shows two different colors trying to blend with each other?
As an artist, how do you decide what color to add to your work? Or even to your day, is it by what reality tells you should or is there. Or by what you feel needs to be there?
The emotive use of colors is something that interests me deeply; it is visible in various artists from Picasso to new age artists, how strong a color addition or lack of a color can be on a work?
All this questions started to rise up in me after seeing the work “Reuzen (Giants)” by the design group- 75b.
Reuzen (Giants) – 75B
Realizing how much color can effect and dose affect our everyday life, even in the deepest places, the core of our being. This work presents to me very well the feeling of change and process we all have in life.
Looking on the portfolio of 75B the versatile use of colors is visible. Creating or dividing spaces, adding a dimension to an existing reality, and evoking different feelings on the viewer. Also at other works the lack of color serves the same purpose. In different ways like dividing spaces, adding or taking away certain colors to evoke various emotions on the viewer.
Reuzen (Giants) – 75B
Know. the control is in your hands, in your own life you are the artist that holds the brush, and not obliged to be effected only by other colors being implied on you by others around you. So what happens tomorrow is completely up to your hands.
