The Chromatika
Above: Green Is Savage Still as
the Fern-Forests of Prehistory
2020-21
Medium
Digital billboards, various dimensions
Displayed
Switzerland, July and September 2020, March 2021
The Chromatika is a new psychological theory of colour for the 21st Century, created by the artist in response to Goethe's 'Theory of Colours' and Rudolf Steiner's writings on colour.
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Red travels most easily through
the hot, thin atmosphere
2020
Violet bears an ominous
resemblance to "violent"
2020
Orange suggests other realities
between red and yellow
2020
Yellow is an instance of happiness
speeding to its own end
2020
Indigo is measureless as the uniform
blue-black of the deep pacific
2020
Blue contains all the longing
a human being is capable of
2020
Black is the gravity that
tethers the luminous world
2021
White is a desolation,
a non-state like a blank mind
2021
Grey is an Ambiguous
No-Man's Land, a half knowing
2021