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Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters,
troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
– Jacob Nordby

Color is a special gift not all of us receive. I am blessed to grasp, twist, and revel in the full spectrum this moment in time to suit a hunger for rich variety and kaleidoscope of play. However, 1 in 12 men and 1 in 100 women globally, or about the population of USA, are color blind in one of the many ways the brain interacts with our sight. I chose to break into that strange box we call accessibility and apply filters that replicate color blindness against images I already find colorful for a new series, Color Blindness Curves. When we create web pages, business cards, or perhaps even an exhibit we may remember people who see not less but “teach us to see the world through different eyes,” (James Nordby). Please note though that when I filter these for those of us without color blindness I change what the color blind see in my images yet again.

Photos digitally manipulated into geometric forms, using rich color or color enhanced photos. My analytical abstracts and jumping off point for the rest of my abstracts.

All these wonderful moving kaleidoscopes are birthed from photographs. I rejoiced in their birthing because in them I found the kaleidoscope love since childhood. Every one of them has one element that is the same that creates the white in them.

I can’t tell you how many times I passed barns in times past without a second or even first glance. Now I notice these ordinary structures for the extraordinary variety of architecture from unnamed architects and for being stalwarts of the rural. When all else falls the barn stands to protect those within.

The Roundup series is about enclosure, safety, and endurance against the torrent of time, and it is about encircling, roundup, and embrace within the inclusivity of landscape. They, like people, are both individual and part of a larger plane.