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- Michelle Meaney
Michelle
Meaney
Heat, Think, Identity
Following research on holistic therapy and Chromotherapy, I spent four months exploring connections between colours and emotions specifically through ‘colour’ performances. These performances have involved wearing certain colours on specific days and through this experience I began to see days as colours, not simply as days.
After the immersive performances, I covered my studio space with red, yellow and blue vinyl rolls to visualise my experience in my work. Through this process I am challenging both the viewer and myself to experience a different view of my studio space.
The process also raises the questions:
Are we being forced to become detached from a pure experience of colour in contemporary society?
In some way, are digital devices making us forgetting about colour?
I am challenging the viewer to address these questions by placing myself in the centre of a colour environment in my work. I ask them to think about the images in front of them and to try experience the emotions within the colours which are enhanced by the lack of eye contact, body language and the titles of the works.
Through this encounter the viewer is forced to experience something that is maybe unnatural to them as it is not seen through the filter technological device.