Colour Scheme
Artist
After my brother-in-law died, we set up a vase, photo and candles to pay homage to his passing. Midwinter, the grocery store offered mostly tulips. When the petals started to fall, I put them in a jar. By the time spring came the jar was full. I continued collecting flowers and went on to fill two additional jars, one for June and one for July. Every time I added to the jar, I took a picture. These photographs are now calendars – two months of flowers representing the passage of a difficult time.
Anne Riesenberg is a writer, photographer and Five-Element acupuncturist living in Newcastle, Maine. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, her work can be found in PRISM International, spoKe, Pleiades, Posit, Heavy Feather Review, and elsewhere. The Palace of Unbearable Feeling, her chapbook of visual poems was recently published by Lily Poetry Press.
Anne Riesenberg
Collect objects of a single color and document the accrual.
Invitation
Pick a colour.
Find a container to hold your collection.
For each day of a week add one (or more) example of your item of colour to the container and document how the relationships between objects shift as they accumulate. Methods of documentation include: photography, drawing, written description, etc.
Repeat Step 3 for a week.
When the week is complete organize your documentation using one of the following formats: calendar, Venn diagram, atlas.