Eye Spy: Shades of Green
Shades of Green
Connected through color…
“They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.” - Picasso
In my last newsletter I talked about new ways of practicing how to see (look up, look down) and why it’s important to keep your eyes open for new things. There is something peaceful in the act of looking, almost reassuring. I asked everyone to send me photos of what they were seeing on their walks or in their homes (since we are all buckling down). To my surprise all of your photos were in the same color family - green! How fun is that? And on top of it, I had put a yellow and greens in a trend called Duplicity that I created in early 2018 for the Fall Winter 2019-2020 season. So everyone was right on trend. Talk about synchronicity. I constantly preach that everything and everyone is connected whether we realize it or not. The proof below needs no explanation. Now more than ever does green also seem appropriate given the current pandemic state we are in. It represents sickness, renewal/rebirth, money and jealousy - all the things I know to be in the air at the moment.
Color palette from the Duplicity trend for the Fall Winter 2019-2020 season
Why is seeing so important? The goal is to help you find details in the big picture. My attention span was already dwindling with too much phone usage and information overload. Add to that a quarantine and my attention span got zapped. Going back to what my forecasting practices, paying attention to details will sharpen your mind, keep you present and also make your world that much richer. I certainly have never checked on my neighborhood flowers as much as I have in this lockdown. I am a devout lilac lover and my attention to details have skyrocketed in my daily visits to watch them bloom and track their scent (because when you have nothing else to do you notice some days they are more perfume filled than other days). Even when reading emails, I have slowed down instead of glazing over them. Small details make up a whole of something - an outfit, a restaurant's scene or a novel. And those moments that may seem insignificant make life way more interesting.
Thank you to all who participated in this photo experiment and I will be curious where this synchronicity takes us!
