Like prolonged echoes mingling in the distance
In a deep and tenebrous unity,
Vast as the dark of night and as the light of day,
Perfumes, sounds, and colors correspond.

Charles Baudelaire, (chromophile suffering from synestesia)

The starting queries for every aspect of the CHROMOPHILIA SEARCH and ART is:

relation to colour,
lack of colour,
use of certain colour,
fear of colour.
The focus is on man’s REACTION to colour.

Results of the carried out research has brought to our attention that, pure clear colours are associated with primary instincts, similarly as in nature they denote fear, danger, sex, warning.

Children and the male population prefer clear colours while women generally are attracted towards softer pastels. For some, strong Colours also showed having a sensual connotation.


CHROMO work consists of ONGOING and never ending collecting of documentation on the topic, exploring different areas of colour in literature, in visual art, design and different approaches to colour physical, psychological, economic, social and spiritual.



The name CHROMOPHILIA is adapted from David Batchelors book CHROMOPHOBIA. This book is concerned with corruption or rather contamination through colour (chromophobia) and its modern and contemporary manifestations as well as with resistance to it in art.


Our Chromo Q questionnaire brought to our attention the fact that almost 80% of young people( 15 to 20 years old), students who completed the research, has connected specific colours to corresponding sounds or at least have used sound related vocabulary to more adequately and vividly describe colours.
Some parts of the project has been collected in to a catalog,
here bellow are examples of pages from that printed collection.



 
Thanks to !
Konstnärsnämnden for funding the project that has been a stable and absolute necessary base to grow the CHROMOPHILIA upon. Royal College of Art in London for letting us access excellent resources for research on a subject of colour. And especially to Neil Parkinson.
 Thanks to!
VALENTINA who has worked with developing and maintaining the blog, writing and shaping its content even without much support, it has now been spotted by Colour Lovers and the Colour spot. She is also the woman behind the writing of the text in this catalog, fearlessly rewritten in some parts by Joanna Bodzek.