The Light moves from dawn to dusk.
The planet rotates and revolves.
The Colors change.

But, what is Color? This subject is vast.
If we are intrigued and we focus together, we create a force that is greater than any one of us individually can generate.

This heightened state, this concentration of our interest, allows us to all understand more deeply something immensely important to human life – the growth of consciousness, which is the nourishing of that spark within us – Life 

Color is revealed to us as a Trinity.
Three qualities simultaneously appearing, each distinctly different from the other.
Equal, not sequential, immaterial, without form…

The Trinity of Color
The Revelation of the Primary Colors
The whole world is a combination of Red, Yellow and Blue.

From time immemorial, the RAINBOW
has always been considered a miracle,
a direct communication from the Divine. 

In Genesis:

“I do set my bow in the cloud…
and I will look upon it that I may remember
the everlasting covenant between God
and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the Earth.”

The Stained glass of the Middle Ages show a deep knowledge and understanding of the potency of Color to be able to affect us.

From the Koran:
“That which He created for you here on earth is of varied colors.  There is really here a sign for people to reflect upon.”

Let us reflect on the three pure Primary Colors –Red, Yellow and Blue. Though they come from the same source, they are individual, clearly distinct one from the other.

In their differences is revealed a profound fact – They each represent one of the three dimensions of space and create the three-dimensional world which we see, filled with objects that have a front, side and back.

In a world of solid, no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. In the realm of the immaterial, this limitation does not exist. 

The individual characteristics and dimensionality of each Primary Color is always experienced the same, universally.

Blue has the quality of moving away from us, surrounding and containing everything that we see, so it is seen as being palest in its center and darkest on its periphery.

Yellow is almost contrary to Blue in that it is more intense in its center and radiates outward, getting paler and paler so that it glows.

Red is uniformly intense all over. It glows like Yellow and it concentrates like Blue, giving it a dynamic, static quality. 

So that Blue moves backwards,
Yellow moves sideways and Red moves forward.

Each of these Primary Colors represents a different dimension of space of our three-dimensional world. 

We see the world as solid, but we are actually seeing colored Light which appears as form.

Nothing solid – no matter how infinitesimally small – can go through our eyes. Only Light which transforms into Color, which appears a solid.

These three elemental primary colors mixed create brown, MUD, the color of the Earth, the most solid appearing thing that we know. Within the Earth, the begin to congregate, separate again into their true individual states. From the Earth comes the world in which we live.

Within this mixture of colors called the Earth, we can observe the magic of the Primary colors taking on their material properties. We witness an intelligence beyond us.

These colored rocks, ground into the finest powder,  become pigment. Pigment makes paint.

It is also Light transformed into another uniquely human form of nourishment and upliftment of the Spirit within us –

ART

The wonder here is that the matter of the Earth as pigment is used to create the illusion of a three-dimensional physical reality on a two-dimensional surface. 

As if the Rainbow underwent an extraordinary change and became solid, became the beautiful jewels of the world, the same process produces the endless variety of beautiful flowers and trees on our planet.

They are Light transformed, whose primary purpose is to perpetuate Life.

“That which He created for you here on earth is of varied colors.

There is really here a sign for people to reflect upon.” from the Quran

I am in perpetual reflection and observation of the mystical force that is the source of Color, that is Light, that is Divine.

I paint from life, seeking to experience the truth as revealed from and by the subject rather than anything that I create of my own. 

I want to find and see the mystical presence in whatever I paint. 

Through Color, the immaterial takes form and the material is filled with the Eternal.

I see the Primary Colors in everything, everywhere, and sense their individual importance in what I’m observing.

It is similar to the Holy Trinity as it is similar to positive, negative, and neutral which represents the Trinity of Energy.

To me, the purpose of Art is to nourish and uplift the human spirit. 
Art is the first fruits of man’s consciousness.

If we go backwards in time, if there are no pictures, there are no men and where there are pictures, is when man appears.

So Art is inseparable from man.

If we dismiss the reality of the invisible, then the breath of life would leave us instantly.

The life or consciousness within us is the Light. We are connected to this miraculous energy through Color.

I hope to encourage you to enlarge your understanding and appreciation for the wonderful mystery within which we live.

Take time to reflect on the varied, myriad Colors that surround you, and to SEE them as a gift of Grace.

A special thanks to a most wonderful artist, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, IZZY, whose music was truly enlightened. ‘Over the Rainbow’  and ‘What a Wonderful World” 1993 Hawaii

Our deepest appreciation to Frank Little for use of his award-winning photography communicating the principles of color through natural wonders.