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I’m doing a series of paintings based on my synesthetic responses to numbers. I have grapheme-color synesthesia, which in my case means that I perceive numbers as having innate color properties. (To get even more detailed, my synesthesia is based on the concept of the number, not the actual physical representation of it–so just thinking of the “concept” of, for example, the number 5, makes me perceive orange. If I see a 7 and a 2, my mind turns it into a math problem, and I get blue for the 7, yellow for the 2, and orange for the 5 that’s implied when you subtract 2 from 7. Just…go with it.)
So, sometimes I either see or just think of a number, and it gets stuck in my head like a melody. Those numbers have been winding up on canvas. This is the first one:
