White is not a colour, but a condition. Beauty. And a deep sense of void. White is to strive for silence. Put together, the Japanese kanji (character) for ’void’ (utsu) and the kanji for ’white’ means ’vacuum’. The power of white is that it brings together, makes it possible to see afresh, to be reborn. Just as the yolk of an egg becomes a chicken by absorbing the white.
The white is a condition that goes beyond white as a colour in architecture, on paper and in art. There is more and more white in the world as a result of the cooling of the universe. This means that colours are going towards grey. Grey is the final phase, produced by colours, together with brown. Brown is the erosion of all materials. Only white stands alone. Is singular. Physics has taught us that the universe is moving towards a zero point where everything falls to rest. When the wniverse, which today is beige, reaches its zero: Everything will be white.
