Friday, March 25, 2011

Prologue (Reprise)

When you mix black with white, you'll get grey.

Grey is a very interesting colour. Fine artists will tell you the fundamentals behind the colour grey, are the two extremes in colours - black and white. When you put these two colours together, you get grey. Grey can be seen in many ways but what I'd like to suggest for this entry, is to try and see grey in terms of two specific perspectives - Firstly, the dulling of white under the presence of black; and secondly, the purification of black using the colour white. Both explains the existence of grey yet offers different vantage points to its creation.

I enjoyed the colour grey for many reasons, firstly because it is a colour of a variety of perspectives. Grey basically offers you to see beyond what is black and white, and allow you to pull out the sensibilities of the two colours and mixing them, arising in being this beautiful shade of neither. Some people prefer more of white than black, so they conjured a darker shade of grey; some people pick on cleansing the black with lots of white, thus creating the light grey.

Irrespective of how deep or light the grey is, it is essential that we remember once again the fundamentals of forming grey - that it composes of extremes and at the same time, trying to balance them.

Henceforth, sit back and relax and then look at grey over time. Then you will realise, grey indeed, has its own story to tell.

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