Colouring-in your life. 1: Thinking in colour...

Colouring-in your life

Here's a journalling exercise on colour that was part of our Team Cybercrop in 2006.

Part 1: What do colours mean to you?

There’s a condition called synaesthaesia in which people have their senses mixed up – they can “see” sounds and “hear” smells, “taste” colours…

Here, for example, is my take on colour:

blue - the moment just before waking, but also the pain of pulling my hair
red - the sharpness of cooking tomatoes, and heels stumbling on cobbles
yellow - Yorkshire cheese, the sound of a ship's horn in the muggy fog
brown - mother-love, buttered mushrooms and Guinness
white - the sound of silence, nothing but the ringing pulse in my ears
black - proud and strong, the tautness of chain, a clear bell chime
midnight blue - velvet to touch and deep knowledge of a lover
green - breezes gusting, and squirrels jumping from tree to tree

Take a colour – think about what it represents – jot down a few ideas…
Write down each of the following on a separate line and complete it as I did...
Post it here as a comment if you like. (Note that comments are moderated to avoid thiose horrible people who leave comment spam so it might take a little time for your comment to appear.)

blue
red
yellow
brown
pink
white
black
green

So what does this have to do with scrapping? Aah - more soon!