Lying side by side: fitting colour to eros

Abstract

This paper reflects upon colour as an essentially ‘short form’, aligning it to the new fast forms of communication that characterize the exchanges on Twitter and other social network media. She also associates this quality with Eros, through the release of emotional and retinal energy during perception. She notes that abstract or symbolic representations stimulate the same brain activity as when actually seeing. In a densely poetic text the attention is drawn to the quick bursts of sensation that make up our individual responses and experience of the world, whilst reminding us that these individual instances are not isolated but part of a wider whole.