Saturday, October 27, 2007

colours ...........


If we lost the ability to perceive all the colours in the colour wheel, and instead became limited to an achromatic view, the world would still remain a stunningly beautiful space. The images that we once cherished for their hue, and intensity would be instead looked upon in the light of their value. The spectrum of things used to judge the visual world would be at once limited. This limitation greatly simplifies, and this simplification can often make images more beautiful: more purely appreciated. The sheer amount of information present in a landscape can overwhelm us, and all this information can mask the beauty of the contrasts of value that are present. Seeing only this, we gain a greater sense of depth in the world we feel through our eyes. For example, a mountain scene, that in chromatic, is seen through the blue in the sky and the range of brownish colours in its cliffs, instead might be seen for the moody white and gray clouds floating over its sharp black peaks covered in ice cold white snow. The greater sense of depth in an achromatic view can easily inspire a more dramatic emotional feel toward our being, towards existance and evry other aspects of eternal life .

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