Color Isn’t Real
2024
Color Isn’t Real
October 2024
6” x 5” x 1.5”
3D powder print model with three RGB spotlights
October 2024
6” x 5” x 1.5”
3D powder print model with three RGB spotlights
This project explores behavior of overlapping RGB lights and shadow to show that color isn’t real through means of optical illusion. According to the Cambridge dictionary, color means “red, blue, green, yellow, etc.” and real means “existing in fact and not imaginary,” but red, blue, green, yellow, etc. exist only in our minds as a response to light by our nervous system, and are all imaginary as another way of understanding light. So, color isn’t actually real.