White light is composed of all color, the sunshine at the right angle on a rainy afternoon in May makes rainbows, a prism or a cut glass window fractures the hues in patches on the wall or the floor...that's the first meaning, and color has a role throughout (yellow being a very important one, so the cover is very yellow...) The main character, Samantha Ryder, is an artist, so colors are meaningful to her, and she's autistic, in her mind, her emotions are colorful (quote from the book): "I stared through the sunny window, the tears in my eyes refracted the bright light blurring my vision, fracturing white light into the pure hues of my emotions — my private colors for all that I feel." (from page 220, Chapter 10 The Fractured Hues of White Light)
Samantha's ability to express emotions is complicated by her autism, but the irony is the 'normal' people around her are just as inept in expressing their true feelings for one another...quite the emotional soup du jour...
What is normal?
The book is a study of emotions...they tend not to be 'black and white', the emotional color scheme becomes muddy with complications...primary blue, yellow, red mix to make the secondary colors purple, green, orange, and then the triadic colors beyond that and you have that awesome box of 64 Crayola crayons of endless combinations of blue-green, green-blue, red-orange, orange-red, blue-violet, violet-blue...but when you mix up a batch of complimentary colors (red/green, yellow/purple, blue/orange) and you get mud...earth tones like burnt siena, raw umber, yellow ochre, good stuff like that...
Ya dig?
That's my emotional color theory lesson for the day...class dismissed...
Samantha's ability to express emotions is complicated by her autism, but the irony is the 'normal' people around her are just as inept in expressing their true feelings for one another...quite the emotional soup du jour...
What is normal?
The book is a study of emotions...they tend not to be 'black and white', the emotional color scheme becomes muddy with complications...primary blue, yellow, red mix to make the secondary colors purple, green, orange, and then the triadic colors beyond that and you have that awesome box of 64 Crayola crayons of endless combinations of blue-green, green-blue, red-orange, orange-red, blue-violet, violet-blue...but when you mix up a batch of complimentary colors (red/green, yellow/purple, blue/orange) and you get mud...earth tones like burnt siena, raw umber, yellow ochre, good stuff like that...
Ya dig?
That's my emotional color theory lesson for the day...class dismissed...