Meditations in Color
A living study of color in use, across time.
An archive of artists' palettes. A quiet place for looking closely. A studio for drawing.
Public‑facingStudies
This page gathers public-facing tools that extend Meditations in Color beyond the main drawing system. Each study is a way of holding the archive up to a different kind of light, letting color, palette, and provenance take on new, shareable forms. Studies one to seven read the painting archive; eight to fifteen turn the same instruments on the film archive, where the palette is a poster and the artist is a director, ending in a screening room where those sheets run as a programme.
Begin with the flyer study, jump to the movie studies, see the archive sheets and the one sheets, sit down in the screening room, or return to the drawing system.
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Max Beckmann, as a chromatic alphabet.
after the chromatic alphabet
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Etel Adnan, in five stops.
after “Untitled” (landscape), 2014
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Artist, rendered as stained glass.
after the artist’s palette
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Artist, a moiré interference of the palette.
after the artist’s palette
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A chord, not a sample.
Pierre Bonnard
after “Nu dans le bain”, c. 1936
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Loop 8s
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Akira Kurosawa, a career as one spectrum.
thirty films, in order of release
Poster art via TMDB
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08
Vertigo, reduced to twelve, six, three, one.
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
Poster art via TMDB
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09
Two films, a rhyme across the archive.
a double feature chosen by color alone
Poster art via TMDB
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10
Horror in the 1980s, a census of ninety posters.
hue by angle, colorfulness by radius
Poster art via TMDB
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Vertigo, as a twenty-frame color script.
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
Poster art via TMDB
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Programme
15
Seven Psychopaths, as a chromatic alphabet.
after the poster
Poster art via TMDB
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