seeing what happens between colors

In the seemingly unending stack of theology papers I am privileged to be engaging, a quote from Albers’ Interaction of Color caught my heart… thanks Ed.

“In musical compositions, so long as we hear merely single tones, we do not hear music. Hearing music depends on the recognition of the in-between of the tones, of their placing and of their spacing. In writing, a knowledge of spelling has nothing to do with an understanding of poetry. Equally, a factual identification of colors within a given painting has nothing do with a sensitive seeing nor with an understanding of the color action within the painting… Our concern is the interaction of color; that is, seeing what happens between colors…Colors present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions”

Josef Albers, 1975, page 5

peace, dwight