Our (IB) art class is doing challenges through the rest of the year. We wrote a word (I wrote, "self image vs. others' image", "corruption", etc) For the first challenge, we had three words to use to individually create a piece due the following class. For the first word, everyone got the same word "watercolor". Then, for myself, I got the words "monochromatic" and "blindness".
These three words (watercolor, monochromatic, blindness) have similarities and differences. I wasn't sure how to use one-color with blindness. Wouldn't the blind not be able to see any colors/thing? Then, I thought about another kind of blindness: ignorance and unknowing. I thought about this colored-water experiment, that people taste different flavors based on color (while the drink itself is the same, besides being different colors). So, colored water--this would be different than using watercolors, and I could expose my strength if I used something other than painting; I am better at conceptual art and some sculpture. I would recreate that experiment, but I didn't want to copy it. I decided to use one-color (blue food coloring) and alter it with more/less water to dye ratio, with black (food coloring), and with white (soymilk). I put each liquid in a different glass, because I didn't want to use the same glasses, and I took pictures.
The second part of this piece was to bottle each color, and severely tape the bottles together, only to expose a small window to show the color.
Monochromatic: it's all blue.
Watercolor: it's color in water.
Blindness: it's all the same liquid. The blind can tell this (truth) most easily.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78806292@N07/
The IB Biology exams, Paper 1 and Paper 2, happened today at noon. I think that they went okay. Tomorrow is the last IB Biology exam, Paper 3.
That's really cool! I like how you interpreted that differently. Good luck with the exam, and then you only have two more :)
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