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colour perception preference

Describing colour

How much our descriptions of colour can convey our individual experience of colour is entirely subjective. As Josef Albers, famous for his lifelong experimentation with colour points out:”we will have different reds in our minds. Only the pigment red, the color by itself, is able to get all the different imaginations into the same direction. But the psychic reactions are still different“.

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aesthetics personalising space preference vision

home and away

 

I have moved from my home 200 miles a way. I chose the colour scheme when I refurbished the kitchen (left). I am now housesitting, living amongst the owners posessions, a tasteful neutral pallete. An old friend visiting, was prompted to buy me this mug that somehow encapsulates my personal preferences into one everyday object.