The Breakdown: Shapes and Colors

Colors have such a strong significance in our lives.  In fact, color affects our interpretation of what we see and further, how closely tied they are to our emotions. We have the ability to see the world's vibrancy but we also have colorful intuition that can either hold us back or welcome us. It is our choice to decide how to react to how we see colors.

We are all shaded and colored beautifully, from our skin, to our eyes, to the nail polish ladies pick out at the nail salon. 

When you sit and think about color, it is amazing how it drives our society. During the pivotal periods in our history that breathed life into the injustices behind Jim Crowe in the South, the Holocaust in Europe, and the Atlantic Slave Trade, color has controlled the framework of communities. Case in point, one of the most powerful countries in the world shows division based on an individual’s understanding of color. Moreover, territories have been set in cities and neighborhoods and lives taken in the U.S.  based on wearing the wrong colors.

                                            

Mass media no longer saturate viewers with the gang violence, such as the Bloods and Crips' issues in the 90’s; the "color talk" in American has shifted to "Black against Blue".  Social media is becoming the main hub for this color division (#BlackLivesMatter vs. #BlueLivesMatter vs. #AllLivesMatter). 

Thousands of comments pour in on videos and news articles. Most of the time, these story have absolutely nothing to do with race, however, the conversation is so brutally hateful against one another’s physical identity. In an attempt to expand the afore-mentioned point, I pose this question my readers: Why is color always seen separately in our society? Frame your opinion based on the thesis statement below:

The history of color division has repeated as if it were a broken record.

As a self-taught artist, I deal with colors quite often. When I initially began painting, I did not understand how colors worked together. Experience taught me, when most artist are stuck on how to make color work, they use a color wheel to show the contrasts or perfect blends. I love blending colors. I am convinced that my paintings would be boring if I only used primary colors. The more I experimented with different paints, the more detail I was able to put into each portrait. 

There is an allegorical meaning to this entry. Colors work better together, not separately. Man cannot help but to see everything in hues but we literally force ourselves to see color solely.

Do not look at the world narrowly or you will miss God’s beauty. We are all one body with different backgrounds and life experiences. These backgrounds make each group distinct but that does not exile them from other cultures and customs. There is too much to offer in this lifetime, do not cheat the trip.