I was invited by artist and teacher Jennifer Schmidt to give a guest lecture. That evening I had the opportunity to talk colours with her class at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
We started with a strong love for Cyan or a very specific longing for Ultramarine blue, preferably when the paint or ink is still wet. And we talked about the powerful combination of red and black and a tickling attraction to artificial green.
Later we dived deeper into the many faces of Riso ink and I showed some of my artist books.
In the end we came to the beautiful point that colour has one deep point of contact with experience and the sharing of stories: poetry. Colours summer, rattle, flow and growl like the words in a poem.
We started with a strong love for Cyan or a very specific longing for Ultramarine blue, preferably when the paint or ink is still wet
