M16 Online Exhibition

One of my wind/rain drawings has been selected to feature alongside a wealth of talented artists in M16's "The Salon" online exhibition:

"This online exhibition presents exciting works by 50 emerging, mid-career and established artists. Paying homage to the salon hang that originated in Paris during the 17th Century, the M16 Salon presents an extensive collection of artworks, in close juxtaposition, creating a unified visual effect and the perfect way for you to add to your collection".

Click here to view the online exhibit.

Timeline

This series of drawings represents a timeline of the weather on the 20th of May 2020 - a few raindrops early in the morning, heavy mid-morning rain, clearing showers in the early afternoon followed by rainless and windy conditions around 4pm. The wind was predominantly NNW with gusts reaching 28 km/h.

In addition, the leftmost image is my longest exposure so far (I think). After days of still weather, the sparsely-lined example was punctuated by a few stray droplets, perhaps marking its completion.

Pink Life

The Stroop Effect, named after scientist J. Ridley Stroop, describes a phenomenon that demonstrates the cognitive processes involved in interpreting written language and colour. In the timed experiment, a participant is instructed to name the colours of words that describe a certain hue. However, the text is written in a colour contrary to what the words describe. So for example: if the word blue is printed in red, then the participant should say red.

Results from Stroop's experiments indicated that written text has a stronger influence on human cognition than colour, with participants reading the text aloud much more often than specifying the colour of the text. The cause of this cognitive interference has been narrowed down to a few likely causes: processing speed, selective attention, automaticity and parallel distributed processing.

Usually, the titles bestowed to paint hues under a particular brand are written in black. But if words are encoded more quickly than colour, what effect do these titles have on the reading of a swatch? Do the titles influence not just colour cognition but the efficacy of the wind drawings upon them? Is the optimism of My Wish more agreeable than the connotations of Pink Life?