Color studies will be the focus of my senior show. Specifically how color effects people and how our culture defines our environments with color. The questions I seek to answer and illustrate are: How does environmental color affect individuals? and How does our society use color to define our environments?
An example is what I call institutional green. A light green color has been used for decades to cover the walls of insane asylums. The thought is that it acts on the senses to soothe and calm. That may be true, however, after a long history of connecting light green with insanity the reaction can be very different from soothing and calming yet our definition of asylums is light green, so they continue to be painted "institutional green."
I will pursue this project with images that I repeat in different colors. Some will seem right and others may feel disturbing because the color clashes with our interpretation of the image.
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