
Chromophobia - Tension between minimalism and nature's palette
Sep 28, 2024
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So the fact that we humans tend to separate our own spaces, more like privatise them. But while doing this it seems like we’re discriminating towards ‘outsides’. Chromophobia - a desired deletion of colors, as interestingly put by David Batchelor, is what being seen practiced around. Again, in the name of minimalism, an endless emptiness, uninterrupted or rather ‘uninterruptable’, the white interiors are rendering us insignificant. In some way we draw into seeing color and white as opposites. Coming from the western cultures or I don’t know, the dominance of white is creating disquieting anxieties which are not being able to bridge between standardisation and personalisation (Adolf’s theory), w.r.t. embrasing colors that are already within us in the form of nature. So the argument arises if common grounds must be considered that spaces are controlled in a way, not to go too subjective (which may go wrong to the personal preferences) or too regular (which can imply an ideology).
