When I was a photography student learning about colour photography, I had to learn about the properties of light, how it broke apart and how it blended together. It hurt my head. I remember really struggling to accept that green could be a primary colour. Basically, I was being taught physics by someone who understood physics no better than I did.
I learned though, that primary and secondary colours of light are different to those of paint and mixing them together produces vastly different results. As you know, mix red, blue and yellow you get mud, but mix red, blue and green, the additive primaries of light and you get white light. It’s the same if you mix the additive secondaries, cyan, magenta and yellow – further than that you’ll have to ask a physicist.
This is the metaphor behind ‘Blending Primaries’; mixing three related activities to find clarity. I’m developing three distinct art practices – studio practice, art writing and curating into one full-time activity and enjoying every minute of living my artistic life.
