Thinking Colourfully

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Ways of thinking colourfully about colour and ways of treating colours beyond representation and symbolism. Thinking of colour as something that is experienced and performed rather than being a representation or symbol of something that exists. 

 In relation to Kandinsky's Colour Theory he developed a chart that linked colours with meaning e.g. Purple represents royalty and luxury. This theory can be connected to mood rings, the user wears the ring and it supposedly tells you the mood you're in. 
Universal Colour Values
> There is no universal
> There is no absolute 
> All is in flux
> Everything has the possibility to have many alternative and contradictory interpretations 

James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics and during a lecture in 1861 he demonstrated his process of colour photography. Adapting Maxwell's process Hans Jakob Schmid took black and white photos, colourised them in separate layers and then blended them on top of one another to create the "colour photo effect". 

 Important message - there is no "truth" revealed 

Impossible, Chimerical, Nonsensical, Fictional and Invented Colours 

 Ways of thinking colourfully 

 Terry Pratchett - Octarine - also known as the Colour of Magic or the King Colour, only visible to wizards and cats, described as a sort of greenish-yellow purple colour.

 Infra-black - Pratchett & Gaiman - The colour that flashes before your eyes right before you die from a fatal concussion

 Thinking colourfully - the possibilities of colours to be representative of emotions are known, to be speculative and think of the impossible, chimerical, nonsensical and fictional

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