Colourless Treasure in Space Time and Energy

Behind every image is a different story. It is not what you see, rather it is what you not see.

This is, as many would recognize, is a crumpled paper. You see shades but the paper is still white. Similar to when people do mistakes some say it can't be undone, besides the person remains the same, maybe it was never the mistake, it was just a perception.

A series of time frame studded with a piece of medium which does not posses it own light, or its shape. But the medium is responsible for a different kind of visual interaction with the background. Not, tinting the background, not shading it, not changing its hue, an ideal colourless object of no shape, recorded in a still space and time.

Science was the most favorite subject for me while growing. Eagerness to question and understanding why it is the way it is, why it works the way it works. Why we see the way we see? Turns out we do not have a complete answer yet. We are a species affected by some energy waves (electromagnetic waves) of different frequency vis-versa wavelength. Colour has helped us as a specie of homosapiens to see comparatively wider range of the spectrum. The part that you cannot see in these images is the space where humans cannot differentiate. These are not colours as what we see, but surely passes energy just like colours, that we sometimes believe we receive. Coolness from the blue, calmness from the green, anger and unsettled from the red.

The same example of light aka energy given before is distributed, divided and retracted differently, differentiating themselves from parts of each other. Here the colourless object is the CD that I hold. The CD on its own does not hold any pigment, instead it is the way it is manufactured, the way it has ridges in concentric circular fashion, which are placed so close that this phenomena called diffraction of light happens. There is also an example of a butterfly, the morpho butterfly, which is colourless on its own, but it has scales in its wings that are so precisely placed at specific gaps, that at an angle it reflects blue colour.

A short video to summarize some of my view of showing colourless. The diffraction from the CD, the smoke from tinting the colourless medium we breathe, a drop of water generating ripples showing its presence and finally the energy transmitted through microwave. So, its also about the things we do not see!