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Writer's pictureTyler A Deem

Reflections on Color


(Excerpt from notebook, originally written 7/11/15)

Without time, there is no transfer of energy, so there is no visual or audio; No witness without time.

Every color ray of light is continuously bouncing off the entire environment around you, and with a balanced combination and enough concentration of those colors of light, the light appears white.

If you were to slow down time, perhaps you would see the different rays of colored light reach your eyes at different moments, with result in seeing a procession of sporadic and flashing colors that alternate one after another.

Perhaps we do indeed see all these flashes of separated colors, but our minds process or interpret those patterns of colors, an automatic or biological reaction, but one that can be witnessed. When you stare intently at something up-close, really close and stare at the substance that makes up an object, you can glimpse these other colors, like a pearlescence of assorted colors that compose an object, a rainbow of colors that together appear colorless.

Do the eyes acclimate to colors? Do familiar colors dull after extensive experience with them? Is spring green really brighter, or is it because the brain has been deprived of certain luminous colors such as being sensitive to green over the winter?

Does the man that grows up in a forest recognize one Green, or does he see an endless array of different shades to green, each unique, and without comprehension that there could be a color to represent all these different shades and hues? Locations have always defined my perceptions at least, has it for you? The Ocean is much bluer the longer inland you have been.

Does a change in the way we experience time or location change the way we experience colors?

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