I happen to work in the color standard industry, the industry of color forecasting for apparel and interiors specifically. This one type of perspective means I am often forced to think about color as
other — that color is attached to things like seasons and linear time; that color can be designed and measured for consumption and distributed for capitalist gain. When I think about the overwhelming amount of content about color that presently exists, I immediately feel adrift at sea, periodically disoriented but inevitably inspired. I wanted to create a channel that I could add to without pressure while exploring color through as many tinted lenses as possible, with no attachment to strict temporality or the heaviness that usually accompanies deliverables. This channel,
I learnt colour but did not understand it, named after a beautifully loaded sentence by Derek Jarman from his book
Chroma, is open to all Are.na users to add to it, creating space to build diverse connections about color, through all kinds of media, academic studies, articles, cinema, literature, art practices, and other playful methods, ad infinitum.