The Mirror continuing research

Within the context of Portrait of Dorian Gray where the painting absorbs all the ugliness of Dorian's life, I have started looking at language, and the ugliness of language, particularly in this point of world history. A stupid word could start a world war. An unkind word could send someone down a spiral of uncertainty and despair. The dark negative side is usually more interesting in art. Incorporating the idea of assigning a colour to the feeling, the experience, and without doing a PhD research project on colour theory, my research of getting the words out of my mouth, now have a contemporary response, rather than the inadequate response I made at the time. Playing only, nothing set in concrete. If words easily offend you, stop looking now.

In this conversation beige is the colour of nothingness and loss of empathy

Raw umber was selected as the ugliest colour one year through some online poll. For artists though it can be a magnificent one

According to a brief google search an older eye cannot always distinguish between yellow and green, blue and purple in some instances and luminosity may be reduced.

Using a mix of harmonious opposites on the colour wheel produced a muddy brown grey and while it may be of little value to the everyday person, to an artist working in photography, alternative, experimental etc it is glorious so is the harmony I found

considered an elitist comment and colours associated with elitism were considered those from traditional accepted landscape and portrait colours, This is a brown with bits of other colours inside meant to appear glazed (but does not onscreen)