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COLOURS SPRING/SUMMER 2016

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THE WANDERING MYSTIC

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ravel expands the mind - feeling insignificant under the stars, feeling swallowed by the vast deserts, and feeling invincible on fast lanes. Your experience becomes a microcosm of different worlds.

The provocative red of the geisha, the deep blue jeweled tones of deep Aegean waters, the brown earth that looks pistachio green from airplane windows, but not all travel is leisurely. It can also be an aggravation: getting used to other cultures, always being an outsider. This colour palette juxtaposes the euphoric reds of the high from travel with the pensive beiges and faded bricks of aging buildings and sickly yellows. The blue - cerulean, jeweled and imperial - the colour with the mist abundant wavelength occurs in various avatars through-out the journey like dĂŠjĂ vu, similar yet different every time.

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HYPER-REAL

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f Icarus was around in the 21st Century, he’d have fit right in. We are all flying too close to the sun, living on the edge, or as 50 Cent phrased ‘get rich or die trying’. This is an intense colour palette where human endeavour and human desperation to be relevant, walk hand in hand. The grainy white dots stand for the uncomfortable closeness of the object to the eye. It is an era of hyper-reality and bi-polarity; we know everything and see everything in microscopic details and have contradictory reactions. The closeness skews the perspective and the colours go in a David Lynch-ian direction but sometimes the microscopic detail also provide for clarity - a double edged sword.

Classic bluebells, rose dawn, autumn leaves and blanc de blanc are a cliché fall colour palette but neutralized with vibrant maroons and deep purples

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BOOMERANG

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hat goes around comes around - this colour palette focuses on the beginnings of the 90s hip hop movement which along with street art and graffiti culture in unison came to represent the angst and pent up anger of the sidelined minority.

Taking specifically from the graffiti is the use of deep blues with multiple hues of green‌both venomous vapourous colours that seemed to exorcise the anger from the person to the art. French blue, crown blue, liberty coexist with artisan’s gold and ultramarine green.

It came to stand for urban artistry and making rundown parking lots and abandoned walls into a modern canvas. The advent into technology in a big way made the generation look at science skeptically; the green of the HULK was the same green of the Joker (Batman) of the absinthe and most importantly, money, the lack/ abundance of it being the root cause of all evil.

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SADCORE “I think I am dumb, or maybe just happy” crooned the poet of the 90s Kurt Cobain and this sentiment seems to have seeped into the generations coming after that. Intelligence needed to be accompanied with gravitas to be taken seriously. The colour palette is an idealistic view of the world that allows for a potential of the new intellectual barter system. It’s obsession with order make it decrepit yet functional…multiple rectangular browns denote an earthiness that is restrained. The clean, neat lines and minimalist aesthetic travel easily from one generation to another, and the colours seem to transcend from muted to mute; focusing on the inner monologue, the big eyes seemingly a Murakami-esque burst of knowledge struggling to not overflow.

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