As blogged by hipstomp on core77 yesterday, Helga Steppan's new photographs in her series "Be Long A Part" are gorgeous portraits of her belongings arranged by color. (See them here.) Besides their being stunning works of art and examination of one's stuff, they provide an interesting look into what objects are typically what color. Color clearly has deep meaning for us in some amygdala place, and I ain't no color theorist so enough said on that; but I love scanning through Steppan's images to get a sense of functionality from the objects as an after thought to the sense I get from the colors themselves. For example the grey objects seem so predictably utilitarian, and the pink and yellow so joyful but unnecessary. There's got to be a lot to say about color and function, and a lot to read for that matter. Maybe someone out there will look at these photos and leave an interesting comment on this. Check em out.
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