I’ve found my Color Pholospher Guru and Mentor. Her name is Karen Haller. She has studied color and its effect on human beings for 20 years. She is an Apple Colour and Design Psychology Specialist. She studies and writes in England. She is helping to explain how my love of color and color flower photography has altered and explained much of my life.
In her new book of color, a book that is blowing my mind a bit, she writes this:
And how would we know what path to take to ourselves? When we connect to color, we connect to what we feel. And when we connect to what we think, we can start to connect to who we are. Color comes in through our eyes, but it enters our hearts. It is woven into our emotions and influences how we think and behave… In a world without color, we would become strangers to each other and lose touch with who we are.”
Today, I’m exploring the relationship between a flower and the noonday sun in my flower art and learning why these photos have meant so much to me.
I wonder if Karen Haller has done any work studying what it’s like for people who are color blind. My dad was red/green color blind. Being his son, I have nearly perfect color vision. If I had had a son, he might have had red/green color blindness, since the trait usually skips a generation.
Richard I’m color blind – red green -,I’ll check