Where Color meets emotion: the spectrum of eckseption 

Where Color Meets Emotion: The Spectrum of Eckseption explores one individual's (Eckseption's) personal and emotional relationship with color. While there are commonly accepted emotional associations with certain colors, I don't believe those associations are universal. Instead, I see them as existing on a spectrum, shaped by personal, social, and cultural experiences that influence how each individual perceives color.

To create this work, I interviewed my subject, asking questions such as, How do you act upon each emotion? and What color would you assign to each emotion? After the interview, I conducted a photo shoot where the subject was presented with each color individually, allowing me to capture their immediate, unfiltered emotional reactions.

The photographs are presented as hanging scrolls, a traditional ancient Chinese format historically used for landscape painting, calligraphy, poetry, and later portraiture. I chose this presentation to honor the history of the medium while also referencing the long history of color and emotional psychology. By pairing a contemporary photographic process such as digital photography and SolarFast emulsion with a historical format, I bring together a new medium and an old one.

As you view this work, consider how you would assign color to emotion. How have your own experiences shaped those connections, and how might they differ from someone else's?