Colour for most people is something normal
Colour for most people is something normal. Not for me though. I am colourblind since the day I was born and will be until this body dies Yet I’m fascinated by it.
In my own way I started approaching colour lately. I went to the Frans Hals Museum as often as I could studying every painting that made me move. I researched colour pallets, brush strokes, Frans Hals and Jan Porcellis until I could almost dream all of their works. Bought books of John Singer Sargent and van Gogh. Which seems like an easy task for most and just use your eyes, I have to written down everything in numbers and values, and see how the luminosity touches me emotionally.
From there on I have to go feel and what I like and to see what these broken sensors that are called my eyes come up with. What might be a green, brown, and blue to you is not a green, brown, and blue to me. It’s just a shade that no matter how hard I try to explain, I will never be able see the world like you do. But despite all of that. Maybe by creating some things in colour I will be able to express myself in a new way.
Working in colour something totally different than what I normally do. Which is working with black and white, silver gelatin, or alternative processes. But despite my broken eyes I cannot be not be not inspired every time I am walking around the woods or the sea at home, nourishing my soul in Morocco, or feeding my heart in Italy. It is not that I am missing something, but something is missing from me...
There are two series in the works. One seascapes, one landscapes. Let's see where it brings me and my thoughts.