Color Swatch No. 1
A 1-column extraction from the Color of Solitude Color Spectrum.
Roughly 17 × 20 cm
cotton fabric
acrylic paint
ink
By Amanda Aileen Fisher
Paint colors from a collaboration with painter & visual artist, César Perales
A 1-column extraction from the Color of Solitude Color Spectrum.
Roughly 17 × 20 cm
cotton fabric
acrylic paint
ink
By Amanda Aileen Fisher
Paint colors from a collaboration with painter & visual artist, César Perales
A 1-column extraction from the Color of Solitude Color Spectrum.
Roughly 17 × 20 cm
cotton fabric
acrylic paint
ink
By Amanda Aileen Fisher
Paint colors from a collaboration with painter & visual artist, César Perales
About the Piece:
The Colors of Solitude is a body of work by artist and writer Amanda Aileen Fisher; it an exploration of a language that resides beyond The Word — one of color, received by the sensory self and coded in the subconscious.
For 1 month, the artist wrote in a self-made color journal — 30 loose-leaf pages with a band of color hand-painted across the top, all of which she wrapped in a piece of raw painter’s canvas. Each day, she pulled the next sheet and wrote as usual, simply savoring the sensations of the sensory experience, the journal more tactile and dynamic than a typically-formatted bound one. However, after a few days, she began to realize that there was something in the writing related to the color, as if her writing, itself, was exposing what the color meant for her. So she began to read back each day and pull a word, phrase, or line of writing that resonated and use it to name that day’s color. At the end of the month, she realized this process had revealed to her the nature of her inner landscape and its particular tonalites. It was a decoding of her subconscious world of color, which she pulled forth from her writing.
In the second part of the project, Amanda extracted each color and name she had uncovered and painted them across one strip of fabric (titled The Colors of Solitude: Color Spectrum). She realized that this read as her internal color map, enabling her to see all the names, together, as one body, and to start noticing relations. Each natural color grouping read as its own message, like a more poetic color swatch from the paint store, showing her what a particular part of the color spectrum meant for her. She was fascinated by this. She began making more intentional arrangements of the names to create new meaning, leading her to discover new palettes — her palette of intimacy, for example, or her palette around illusion and internal questioning. It was all a discovery. And, to her, it all read like messages coming from her interior.
The piece listed here is a Color Swatch, from the 2nd level of extraction, outlined in the paragraph above.
