My first website in SA 370

Meghan Benton
https://files.oakland.edu/users/mjbenton/project_one/

I believe myself to be an observant person in the way that I see things that surround me. I have found that the first thing I notice about anything is its color, to me it is the most obvious to see. However, I feel that many people overlook the beauty in color and do not see the common link that beauty has because of color. I feel that the quote “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is a very true statement; people see beauty in different things and in different ways. However, I feel all material beauty has a link through color because all tangible objects have color unless it is black, white, or somewhere in-between. I wanted to create a way to show that this common link between beauty exists.

The problem with just having colorful objects is that there was not any distinction in what I was attempting to do. What better way to order them than ROYGBIV, the rainbow. I also needed to include black and white to completely create the unity of beauty. I slightly altered ROYGBIV; instead I used light blue for blue, and dark blue for indigo. I feel this change distinguished between the colors more and gave them a stronger personality.

I felt that just using colors in my project did not create the depth I was looking to include. I am very strong in my faith and I wanted to bring across my belief that God created everything, therefore he created beauty in itself. Each color is related to an idea and how it is related to me and my faith. Also, the majority of the objects I used were natural, found in nature or in there purist forms, for example, animals and fruit. I personally find natural objects more beautiful, they are the gifts that God has given us. They are not tampered with or changed; these “objects” are in their original form of beauty. I created this project to be a journey to understanding something greater.