It was an intense college course on a nearly scientific level about; chromatic greys, neutral grey, hue, saturation, lightness, complementary colors, contrast, tint, tone, shade, discords, value, primary, secondary and tertiary color, limited palettes, symbolic association, color relationship, human interpretation, temperature, intensity, and mixing ratios.
She worked us like a drill instructor and what I learned in her class has been surprisingly useful throughout my life, even outside of my art and photographic experience.
Even though the entire course was about color, not once did she ever bring up race.
Thoughts From The Short Bus
There are colors that we humans don’t even know about that only animals can see, insects, butterflies specifically.
This helps them discriminate among different plants they want to tap. So bugs are bigger racists than we are.
Really makes you think huh? I saw a beautiful pure white butterfly fluttering about this morning. Figured it must be either enjoying the beautiful day or maybe looking for something to eat.
Well, it was the latter. It landed on a big pile of dog turds and started climbing all over them, really chowing down.
I’ll never feel the same way after today about butterflies.
I wonder if Joe Clark is one of those “Teachers of Color” they are thinking about?