We are all people of color

 

what color are you?

image from the Library of Congress

"While studying painting and printmaking...., Tomashi Jackson noticed that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception phenomenon, in his 1963 instructional text Interaction of Color, mirrored the language of racialized segregation found in the transcripts of education policy and civil rights court cases fought by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). The discovery led Jackson to use the properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy for investigating the history of American school desegregation and the contemporary resegregation of public space. The results are large-scale abstract works that connect past and present, formalism and intuition, languages of color theory and human rights legislation."

The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism

More Views of Metamerism

More views of "Metamerism".  There are still 94 copies available. Each one is unique, but is made of the same or similar materials as the others. All include a genuine glass prism!

If you would like to order one, please send your order to The Metamer Quarterly, PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. The cost is forty-five dollars; please make checks out to Lara Scott, and put "TMQ - Metamerism" in the memo line.

The next issue is called "Maps and Diagrams" and will ship on the Spring (Vernal) Equinox. The cost of this individual issue is fifty dollars. Annual subscriptions are still available for one hundred and sixty.

If you have any questions, please write to me at the above address.

in process

more light and prisms

three pages, reverse, middle

Two prisms, one (left) refracting the light refracted through the other (top/center).









Metamerism ships with just one prism, but you can buy more at many scientific and education supply sites, such as eNasco.

prisms and editions

"Metamerism" is complete. Editions are still available. How does that work? Imagine them like handknit sweaters, all based on the same original pattern. Each one is unique, but is made of the same or similar materials as the others. If you would like to order one, please send your order to The Metamer Quarterly, PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. The cost is forty-five dollars; please make checks out to Lara Scott, and put "TMQ - Metamerism" in the memo line.

Here are a few images. One of the actually book, and a few of the fascinating prisms. A single glass prism is included in "Metamerism." For more about prisms and color, try a search on "Isaac Newton" and "Marcus Marci" and "prism."

More to follow.