A run down to some basic colour and light science.
For us to be able to see colour there must be some level of light. which made me instantly think about how if we lived in a lightless world how different the art world would be and then a darker thought of how there would be nothing in this world without light. which Is quite extraordinary.
To detect different colour, the retina of our eyes contains two types of photoreceptors – rods and cones. The cones detect colour. The rods only let us see things in black, white and grey and our cones only work when the light is bright enough. This is why things look grey and we cannot see colours at night when the light is dim.
everything I have done up until now has involved light, either the sun or a lamp. I have also involved things I relate to light such as a candle stick or lightbulb but looking into the physics of light it made me think that if the object is not self generating light, we are only able to see it when something else is generating light.
again the seem very obvious but I can’t help but just think there is something so fascinating in the thought that anything that is not light itself, is the reflection of light.
I am starting to think that my extra-ordinary object is the eye or sight.
