The Wanderer and His Shadow

Colors.. Perception and Interpretation

We live in a world that is full of colors.... Colors are one way to differentiate things in this mass consumerized world. There are colors for every occassion. People has been for the past hundreds of years want a technology well enough to define "color".. from the old monochrome TV, to the Plasma TVs that we see nowadays. I stroll around and see that television nowadays are judged by the vividness of the colors they generate. One should sometimes learn from "diamonds"... colorless but brilliant and distinctive, and the most expensive of it's class.

Yet, what are colors but merely wavelenghts of lights that reach our eyes.

Colors are also often deceptive. It sometimes only shows you a tale of outward appearance. The world right now judges things more by the beauty of color rather than composition and stucture... It's nice to learn that some people still appreciate the beauty of neutrality. I believe that the essence of things is based on the content of the element, it's form rather than the colors that it has.

Colors has this bad side... those that differentiate people from each other.
Well, 10 years ago, i watched Malcolm X with my best buds dickens and omars... I have always remembered what he said..

"'I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.'"

Isn't it amazing how colors can sometimes blind us? well... here are some of the photographs I took and converted them to nuetral colors...






What if light suddenly stop showing people's colors? What if light merely reflects objects in shades of grey? Will you still be able to see beauty in it?

posted by Pat @ 7:10 AM