Obituary (A Colour Study for NDG/MTL/QC/)9/24/20| Avery Mikolic-O’Rourke
“Colour conveys meaning, of course, this we all know.
Red light Stop / Green light Go
Though, don’t look too close-
Colour without context conveys only pigment,
And, the same colour changes voice with situation
As much as altered colour brings new light to meaning:
Blue can be cold isolation, or calm invitation;
Passion, very different if love-red or jealous-green.
So, what does colour mean
When all things can say anything-
Do they say anything at all?
[ Blurred photographs of coloured objects
Loosely categorized under umbrella texts:
Abstract representation, reveal
An absence of inherent link
Between colour and connotation ]
Without image to associate,
The pigment on page
Occupies a no-man's-
Land of anti-synesthetic
Intonation
A useful tool for setting tone,
Though, of its own,
Colour means
Nothing
To me”
The pigment on page
Occupies a no-man's-
Land of anti-synesthetic
Intonation
A useful tool for setting tone,
Though, of its own,
Colour means
Nothing
To me”