My work is an attempt to bring into focus the implicit search for meaning which was acted out throughout the history of art & design, mythic imagination & psychological theory, as well as religious practices. The resulting ORIGINS and SHEMA color systems are not only useful for aesthetics — great mysteries of alchemy, religion and developments in psychology are made plain to talk about. The words used to describe and explain the chart can be understood and used easily by artists, interior designers and fashionistas. The color chart is also a useful mnemonic device for understanding the construction of personality.
Ultimately the ORIGINS and SHEMA color systems are about discovering unity beyond all multitudes. Each of our individual personalities has a lot of potential and we want to bring as much of it as possible into fruition. Each individual expresses some unique emphasis. Coming together, with open minds and hearts, people benefit from each other's unique talents. But groups also have a tendency to express one quality or another. The central concept here is to see the greater whole; not to make red, blue, or blue, red, but to appreciate red for red and blue for blue. Not to appreciate the part over the whole and not to disregard the group for the individual.
The ORIGINS system intends to represent the basics. The top portion, which introduces basic color combinations, includes key structures of personality which individuals tend to gravitate around. The SHEMA system portrays further development, as cross-integration takes place, various aspects of personality are brought into communication with one another. Further, each individual, with their own unique disposition, has a specific calling in life and is ideally respected as an integral part of the larger society. This system also represents world cultures, each of which has latent and apparent values, and must be included into global unity. It is this appreciation of opposites, whether in complimentary color, or disparate musical genres, the season’s change and fashion trends, which the SHEMA displays in systematic completeness. This all is with the emphasis that integration is about relationship: to different aspects of ourselves, to the differences between others, to the manifold expressions in the larger world.
From one comes two (one another), in each of us two, there are four (the complete possibilities, and in the four are eight (increased nuances), and in the eight are twelve (the complete realization of self, through appreciation of the many).
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