Monday, July 7, 2014

The Pursuit of Art is a Noble Thing # 1

“What do you mean we can’t have a moose head over our fireplace?” he asked with a grin. Clearly, Love-of-My-Life and I have differing ideas of beauty.

The phrase “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” (similar to “One man’s trash is another’s treasure”) may actually have less to do with preference and more to do with the eye’s physical ability to see.
Studies indicate that while, on average, one in 255 women suffers some form of color deficiency, as many as one in twelve men do. www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge  has a fun, free, online color challenge. The page opens to four strips of out-of-order color squares. You drag and drop the squares of color to correct the order to produce a smooth progression from one color to the next. Your score is calculated against others in your age and gender category.

While you are rearranging the colors, think about how you feel. We have all heard that blue calms and red can raise your blood pressure, but a new study revealed that green can boost your creativity.
Sue Shellenbarger reported in the Wall Street Journal that students were given creativity tests. 
Students who had green cover papers were consistently more creative in their answers than students who had white, red, blue, or grey cover papers.

Green paper aside, some of my most creative thoughts came when I left (the room).
Take a break. Leave the room. Imbibe liberally in a beverage of choice (mine is coffee).
Perhaps the most creative solution to the moose head is to braid green ribbons through the antlers and imbibe.

Cheers!  

first published in Big Country News,   13 March 2014.      

No comments: