Raw Color = Nature’s Colors

Great art picks up where nature ends.

-Marc Chagall

With innovation and technology,
seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty
the world has to offer.

-A.C. Van Cherub

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is my medicine.  –

Sara Moss-Wolfe

Love this artistic exploration into the colors created by vegetables, distilled into different mediums like soap, Zout, alcohol. (Media, I guess is more correct, but I think something entirely different when I use that word. Invoking the ‘it’s my blog and I’ll write what I want to’ rule.)

The first two belong to an exhibit named RAW COLOR:

Vegetables are dismantled and purified to their visual essence ‘RAW COLOR’. The harvested color is captured by a new process preserving their intensity on color cards.

The third is the colors applied to textiles; the last an exhibit featuring the liquid palette.

I love how the colors all seem to be complementary and I can’t help but wonder if painting your house in these hues would create a sort of medicinal color therapy. The health and mood boosting effects of time spent in nature are well-documented; to what extent are those effects drawn from nature’s soothing yet energizing color palette?

Interesting ideas, and really I could get lost forever in all the different exhibits. Rather than me listing them all I suggest you go check them out for yourself (but please don’t miss the Sight Unseen Photos, they are awesome).

I need to paint my kitchen. And dining room. And… the whole house, really.

Where did you draw the inspiration for the colors of your home?

{via The Kitchn}