As a child, I used to close my eyes and (try to) imagine a color I had never seen before. The colors I created were fantastical, they shimmered and morphed and sometimes had textured or oily shining skins. Some were aquatic, ultra marine, neon, fossilized or smokey and full of shadows. Then, I would focus, focus, focus and try to achieve stillness where there was movement. The color would then revert to something more easily seen, known or described. I share this because to me, at that age, vision was language and it was my desire to create, discover and pronounce new words, or even new languages, that I expressed in my visual field. To my young and wild mind, I was toying with the artistry of perception and the stretching the limits of the visible spectrum.
I love this Levi. What a beautiful visual. Imagining you imagining never-before-seen colors! How desperately I wish this for my daughter too, and all children. So hard to find such brilliant imagination in this modern world so saturated with tech. I don't even offer video games to my daughter but still, she often asks for them first thing in the morning. Rare is it for a child today to find the space for such vast space for such fantastical shimmering. Vision is truly a language. I am so grateful for young Levi, he helped birth a beautiful man.
As a child, I used to close my eyes and (try to) imagine a color I had never seen before. The colors I created were fantastical, they shimmered and morphed and sometimes had textured or oily shining skins. Some were aquatic, ultra marine, neon, fossilized or smokey and full of shadows. Then, I would focus, focus, focus and try to achieve stillness where there was movement. The color would then revert to something more easily seen, known or described. I share this because to me, at that age, vision was language and it was my desire to create, discover and pronounce new words, or even new languages, that I expressed in my visual field. To my young and wild mind, I was toying with the artistry of perception and the stretching the limits of the visible spectrum.
I love this Levi. What a beautiful visual. Imagining you imagining never-before-seen colors! How desperately I wish this for my daughter too, and all children. So hard to find such brilliant imagination in this modern world so saturated with tech. I don't even offer video games to my daughter but still, she often asks for them first thing in the morning. Rare is it for a child today to find the space for such vast space for such fantastical shimmering. Vision is truly a language. I am so grateful for young Levi, he helped birth a beautiful man.