Meeting with Ian Jervis: COLOUR

• Telling a story - Focus on a rich topic of interest
• Effect on the brain: Visual process + focal point of retina, psychology of colour, colour = litterally the center of our point of focus

Colour in the Everyday:

• Don't often notice it when it is dispersed throughout the world / in daily life - splashed around like little trinkets of colour catching your eye eg. to buy things in shops.
• Helps us identify things in life - brand colours
• Natural world - reproduction (eg. flowers), territorial display, warning signs - danger.

• Historical conventions: In our memory to respond to these colours the way we do:
• eg red - avoid, danger/hazard, green - go, safe
• The idea of memory recognition may help when considering what colour choices to make for my works.
• We see colour before we see tone.
• Shadow helps us identify form

• Could colour break away from/ out of utility? (utility - usefulness, value, effectivness)
• Colour has the ability to liberate - liberation form utility
• Excess - like icing on the cake
• Like the mass of everyday materials I am using in my work, colour can work in the same way when presented in excess it has the ability to be effective/high impact and get noticed by the viewer.

Colour: High energy

• Saturates the brain when faced with excess colour.
• Stops us form thinking
• Power of colour - worthy to play with beacuse it is liberating.
• Colour avoids a direct narrative - more about SENSATION
• tonal work speaks more of narrative
• Excess + Endulgence
• Power + control
• Change and Exploration
• Decoration + excess
• Colour - lively, excitement or boredom, excess/ overload etc
• Choose one aspect and write a story - lead with one idea - the power of colour in excess
• Excess : how to talk about it.....
• Think about my work and make notes while lookign at it - why the work is interesting and its effect on me/ what am I trying to do in terms of sensation and impact?
• This will in turn effect how I go about making future works and how I think about my approach to materials and colour choices....I will understand what to do next.
• Dealing with the work on its own terms

• Breaking away from utility...
• disrupting, fun, change, randomness, surprises, questions, disturbing...
• Looking at designers who have pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable/ normal...
• Messing with/ fucking up beauty..: their work may be stiking, offensive, violent etc...
• Throwing people out of complaicency
• Stepping away from order and chaos ( may also look at the effect of this) and working more with confusing and disrupting the viewer - stressful, chaotic, disrupted
• Colour has the power to disrupt order rhythm and systems: Can work with visual effect of decoration but use colour to make subtle/ abrupt disruptions
• Causing nausea, unable to settle, shifting, movement - Excess of sensation through colour and movement.
• Adolf Loos - "Decoration is a crime" eg. decorative furniture pieces ontop of the towns buildings - pointless, pointing fun at this idea, joke.

Decorative:

• Suggests sensations/ atmosphere - harmony, dissonance (discord, conflict.....syn. harmony) - gives adreniline which is addictive.
• Ties in with rhythm and colour - predictability - colour can mess this up.
• Achromatic: competing with colour - irritation, interesting, method - decoration, rhythm, repetition.
• Throwing these patterns, rhythms and systems out of wack - aesthetic becomes anaethetic..
• Kitsch: two refusals t bring in oppotion
• Compared to normal which is good taste - socio economic status (aesthetics, subtlty..)

Judy Darrough

• Shows at 'Two Rooms Gallery."
• Queen of Kitsch - dissonance
• Looking at the aesthetics of what other people deal with in the everyday - buying for the use of the object/item rather than its colour
• Darrough works with this idea and gets the viewer to reconsider these aesthetics - putting random things/ colours together creating humour, surprise, change and excitement.