Statement on Fourths & Fifths Series
Statement on the inspiration behind the paintings in the series Fourths & Fifths, a group of paintings exploring the possibilities of mapping music theory to color theory.
Hearing Color
Over coffee with my friend Martha she mentioned a headline she had seen for an article The man who hears colour on the BBC website. The article is about artist Neil Harbisson1, a color-blind artist, for whom Adam Montandon2 created a device “made up of a webcam,...
Progressions Part Three
This is the third part of a series of posts on the three mediating proportions – arithmetic, geometric and harmonic – and my playing with the idea of mapping the latter of these to my next body of work, working title Fourths and Fifths. The first post in...
Progressions
My attempts to determine whether or not a rational basis exists for my intuition of a relationship between color and music led me back to Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry, a book I first read about a decade ago, specifically chapter VIII, “Mediation:...