"Ann Truitt: Poetry in Stillness"

Poetry in Stillness

This page talks about a woman's experience in a muesuem and how that experience made her think. She was looking for a painting and found a sculpture in the form of an eight foot wooden rectangle. This sculpture is pure neon green and the woman that saw it said it was totemic. She speaks of how a woman who used to be a babysitter wore a pink sweater all the time because all of the children that she watched loved to touch it. The author then related this fact to how color is a very strong part of memory. She says that she thinks this sculpture was created for the artists daughter, because green seems to represent new beginings and ventures, while the artists daughter is growing up.

I think that color DOES link to memory and I also believe that color can represent designated emotions. In a way, I think that thoughts and even actions can be accompinied by colors and the effect they have on the brain. Red seems to represent anger, and hate while blue seems to represent calm and sadness. There are always certain emotions and feelings linked to colors, and even patterns. I think that art is created with a certain color sceme in mind to help the actual depiction and perception of the individual art piece. I link many things, be it memories, emotions or thoughts, to colors and patterns. I think that the author was right when she spoke of how colors link to feelings. I think the point of the article was to show that solid objects with nothing but shape, texture and color can flood millions of emotions and feelings through a persons' brain. The sculpture that the author saw put emotions in her head so strongly that she decided to write about her experience.