i read somewhere that green is an agressive colour. i like it. i like it because i have been exposed to way to much blue. way too much blue in my past work. blue was the colour that always got used to light events where groups of people were gathered together to be communicated too. the design aspect of lighting became almost redundant as there was a formula that was stuck to. i never really understood why. i always longed to see other colours. the only time i did get excited about blue was when i lit an event for a refrigerator manufacturer. every single fixture in the room had a piece of blue gel in it. it’s amazing how many shades of blue there are when you really need to find them. my favourite blue was rosco 661. it had a presence that no other blue had.
so when i came to redesign the colour for the corridor site, i wanted to use green, lots of green. i did use it. and to begin with i was happy with it. there was something that i felt uneasy about, didn’t know what it was. i started a blogger blog for corridor. i picked a theme for it. over the weekend i looked at that theme again. it had an open feeling. i looked at what i’d done for the main corridor site. it felt closed in, not good really.
as chris and i negotiate what corridor arts is, the website has become an opportunity to work out a concept, a visual concept. it’s become for me a space in which i can express something visually as well as the expected words and pictures. my thinking is shifting. the foundations of the thinking is progressing.
the website has a 2d quality about it. a 3d quality about it as i think of it as a space and there’s also a 4d quality to it as what it is is viewable in real time and is being developed in real time. there is intention that is it self being intentionally considered.
corridor arts gives me the space to explore for myself in my own time. i’m sure i’ve said that before.
so today i’ve been working on a new visual theme for the corridor site. conceptually it has more space to roam, to explore, away from languages that i’m continually translating, much more fundamental. conceptually it’s leading somewhere that is intended to be sustainable, yet at the moment we’ve steered away from setting what that is.
i’m excited about finnishing it and making it live.
