Witches
Melancholic Witches & Blue Devils
How the color blue became associated with depression.
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Birds
Why is teal considered a shade of blue?
The color "teal" comes from the "teal" species of ducks.
Music
A new way to use color to understand music.
Using the musical chromatic scales to create beautiful chromatic scales of color.
Pomegranate
On Pomegranates, Color, and Symbolic Creativity
A Colorphilia Rosh Hashanah sermon
Orange
So, I was wrong about oranges.
Who knew that a simple word could be so complex.
Color
Musical Scales and Color Spectra
A reexamination of Newton's connection between the music and color.
Citrus
Misunderstanding Portuguese Shepherds
The art of being completely lost in translation of citrus fruits.
Shakespeare
Much a-blue about nothing
An incomplete newsletter about William Shakespeare and the color blue.
sunflowers
A Flower by Any Other Name Wouldn't Be As Golden
A follow-up to last week's newsletter about Vincent van Gogh and sunflowers.
van gogh
Vincent van Gogh, the Sunflower.
I've spent months reading van Gogh's letters, and I just created a few collections of sunflowers inspired by him.
Light Words
Six Decades of Glow
Glow sticks are ephemeral fluorescent color lights, inspired by eons of evolution.
Bible
The Biblical (and Post-Biblical) Blues
An iconoclastic exploration into the biblical colors of tekhelet and argaman.