what's your least favourite colour
I really can’t say, tbh. Every single color is just magnificent to me, I can’t pick a favorite
no i meant which colour do you NOT like?
Hmm, hard to say. I’m a big fan of yellow.
…also brown.
Also red. (Not very red, but still red.)
You don’t understand the concept of least favourite?
Tell us what color look bad.
The trouble is that I can’t really describe what bad looks like. I guess when I first learned to see I did this thing where I would take pictures of things in various kinds of sunlight and I liked to go back later and look at them and compare how they looked in different types of light and in various lighting conditions. One day I was taking pictures of these things and I was comparing them and I looked at them and realized the lighting had changed and in order to see the pictures clearly I would have to change everything else I had been looking at to match and the picture I had originally had a different meaning
So I guess the feeling is that even if it is a color I personally love, there are other things that happen when I see it that I cannot understand, because they don’t have anything to do with its basic qualities. It’s sort of like when you look at a really good drawing and there’s this whole aesthetic going on that you just can’t even begin to grasp. But it still looks like a drawing.
It is almost hard to describe what it’s like, because once I got used to having a color, I could never imagine just not having that color anymore and, when I’m around colorless things, I cannot really understand what that is like. For instance, when I was growing up in California, we would go out into the sun and I would find the shade almost oppressive, because all I could see was red, red, everywhere. Now that I’ve lived elsewhere, it doesn’t seem to have the same power.
I’ve just had the experience of watching people, people who are color-blind, go around with a normal color filter in front of their eyes, and that has been fascinating and cool to watch. When you look at people who are color-blind, you can sort of see what color they are going to see most clearly, but there is still this whole extra dimension of color, I guess. And when I look at what the people with colorblindness see (via a screen protector), I am able to see a little bit of what that extra color looks like in everyday life, and I can make sense of it all. It is very neat.







