Colors

So I was thinking about colors today because I had to sort out some for a couple projects I am putting together. And so I was asking the customer what they liked and what they had in mind. And you know, you always get the usual answers, oh I like black and tan, or blue and grey. Which is fine, but it makes me think to myself….. How much are you missing out on? Do you not know that the warm organge base of the black will pull away from the red in the grey? Do you know if you swap to this other grey then your temperatures will dance with one another and pull each one to another dept of visual play. But wait, what are the other colors surrounding those choices? Oh, eggshell, they say. Ahhhhhh then that makes it totally different, if you are looking at your black while surrounded in eggshell with the yllow interior lights and warm sun but cool white curtains then its painfully clear you need a subtle cool black to help pull out the richness of the warms, but balanced with the reflected temperatures of the curtains against your whites, and if we now switch the grey to a warm grey then when looking from the outside it will shift according to weather your standing on the grass or its cloudy……. omg, the look on peoples faces when I go off on it lol. I dunno, I just love colors hahahaha. But it makes me think, the whole world applies to this logic. 

Nothing is singular

So, the whole thing about color is that you discover none of it is acually seen in its singular world. The warmth of the sky makes your car look different, the dappling light of the forest floor makes the fallen leaves dance in even more variation. None of it is actually as it might seem, its only that way because of the world around it. And you might think that this only applies to colors and visuals then, that makes sense. But what about the fact that whatever we study, we change. Those who study animals, like Jane Goodall for example, they know this for a fact. In her immersion into the life of the natural gorilla, she found thaat they adapted and changed as she learned from them. Her color was shifting to theirs and theirs to her, no way to separate the two. Everything plays withing the field it is given, and that field has an impact on us that we cannot ignore or deny, it happens anyway. And if you want to go deeper it hits right on the 2 slit principle in quantum physics. Where when particles are shot towards a wall with two slits, the particles emerge in two bands, makes total sense right. But this only happens when the experiment is watched. If the test is no watched, the prticles spread out into a wave of possiblities. So even just the act of looking at something changes the world. Thats pretty insane, but also fantastic.

It just makes me think….if you learn to look, just look……how much of the world can you change? We live in a world where we are distracted, pulled, told how to think and what to believe and where to put our attention. But what can we do if we just learn to conciously look where we choose, instead of where we are told. And that is just making ourselves more aware, imagine the power we would then have if we put energy and action into it. I dont think theirs any limit to what can be done. But it all starts inside ourselves, doesnt it. Slow down, breath, feel the life thats inside you…. then look out. You might find what was once impossible, has become undeniable. And if you look just a little while longer, you might find your grey shifts to blue, or orange or yellow. Because now you see the whole play, not just the actors, and you are in your power.