The difficulty I have writing about colour at cone 10 is that not only do I not know at what temperature my pots are being fired at, I’m no longer sure that I know what colour is. And after delving into quantum physics I am no longer sure that time exists.
Follow the science of colour for long enough and you find yourself in the realm of quantum physics. I don’t understand quantum physics, but as quantum physicists don’t fully understand it, I’m not embarrassed.
I am a painter of pots. I always loved painting with traditional paints, moving from poster paints to water colours, to oils. They’re actually very different mediums, with the play of light on them affecting our perception of their colour, but essentially you can just buy tubes of paint in different colours and mix up any colour you want. The physics involved appears to be simply Isaac Newton’s familiar colour spectrum.
My first foray into ceramics changed how I see colour.
My first foray into ceramics changed how I see colour.
