True and False Colors

Virgin of Sorrow - Philippe de Champaigne (1660)

If you place creative or artistic behavior at the center of one's personality, you'd find that style is active in all parts of behavior, and you can't separate them out. Its suppression can be inimical to mental and spiritual health: Creative people with divergent styles simply need to go with the flow of the ideas and trust intuition. In some New Age circles, this is understood as being in "alignment" with one's true nature or true colors. There is a deep truth that emerges from this once you blend in with your true colors. But recognizing true colors is easy—everyone can do it. Using them in context with others’ colors or cultural ideas of color is extremely difficult. Finding one’s voice is also a vehicle to the discovery of one’s true colors: to be seen and to be heard as such.

Some cultures are decidedly more synesthetic than American culture. In Japanese culture, there are many words for white based on moods and whether they are dull or shiny. In Africa, colors can be dry, damp, soft, hard, smooth, rough, mute, loud, joyful or sad. 

American culture completely redefined blue, perhaps to our detriment. It has become our version of the Japanese moods for white. America is now shades of blue, but we may align ourselves with other color(s), which can interestingly become a new "blue".

We are in a period of color-cultural misregistration.

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