I used to have this somewhat paradoxical question I asked whoever I happened to feel like asking. Eventually, my science prodigy brother came up with some scientific theory that totally flattened it, but if I forget about that, the question still entrances me. It goes something like this:
"What if everyone saw color differently? Is it possible that the color I see called periwinkle blue when I look out my window at the sky could really be the color someone else sees when their eyes turn towards the grass underneath that wide expanse of what, to someone else, could be the color that I see as red? We would never know the difference, would we, because when we were very young someone told us, hey, see that? that's called green ... even though the shade that our eyes saw may very well be the shade that someone called purple." (Originally I came up with this through considering why everyone's favorite color was different. With this method of thinking, it can be explained that everyone really does have the same favorite color, we just call it different names. But anyway.)
Even though this is most likely impossible because each color emits a certain wavelength that our brains detect and see as a certain color, it certainly is fascinating to consider and makes me think of how everyone just perceives the world differently.
I thought about this idea when I took a sequence of photographs of a lamp in a window. None of the pictures are the same, and none of them look at the scene directly, representing each individual's interpretation of everything in life and that no one person has the "correct" approach.
"What if everyone saw color differently? Is it possible that the color I see called periwinkle blue when I look out my window at the sky could really be the color someone else sees when their eyes turn towards the grass underneath that wide expanse of what, to someone else, could be the color that I see as red? We would never know the difference, would we, because when we were very young someone told us, hey, see that? that's called green ... even though the shade that our eyes saw may very well be the shade that someone called purple." (Originally I came up with this through considering why everyone's favorite color was different. With this method of thinking, it can be explained that everyone really does have the same favorite color, we just call it different names. But anyway.)
Even though this is most likely impossible because each color emits a certain wavelength that our brains detect and see as a certain color, it certainly is fascinating to consider and makes me think of how everyone just perceives the world differently.
I thought about this idea when I took a sequence of photographs of a lamp in a window. None of the pictures are the same, and none of them look at the scene directly, representing each individual's interpretation of everything in life and that no one person has the "correct" approach.
xoxo
Morgan
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