Issue 16: Colour

Spring, 2024

Cover Artist: Abbey Morris


Editorial

Colour envelops us in an embrace that is both seen and felt, a phenomenon that dances at the intersection of light and perception, a fundamental element of both the poetic muse and the scientific spark. It is the crimson flush of a rose that blooms in defiance of the waning days of summer, the deep blue of the twilight that whispers of day's end, and the golden hues of dawn that promise new beginnings. Colour weaves through the tapestry of our lives, punctuating our journeys with its presence, enhancing moments of joy and solemnity alike. It is in the artist's palette, where emotions are given hue, and in the lab, where pigments are broken down into their composite wavelengths…


Editor’s Picks

Contrary to popular belief by Tanis MacDonald
Cornelis Drebbel Discovers the Perfect Red, c. 1606 by JLM Morton
Crayon Box Favorite by Meg Freer
Morning at the Painted Wall by Marilyn Wolf
The Scientist at Giverny by E. B. Smith, Jr.



Poems

A poem for Mary by Sean Patrick
arancione by Stefania Zampiga
Au by Michael J. Leach
Blue by Tim O'Hare
Contrary to popular belief by Tanis MacDonald
Cornelis Drebbel Discovers the Perfect Red, c. 1606 by JLM Morton
Crayon Box Favorite by Meg Freer
Desert Bloom by Catherine Hulshof De La Peña
Driving by Julia Vaughan
Flowing into Indigo by Celia Berrell
Flying kaleidoscope by Vaishnavi Sridhar
Fusion by Judith Taylor
Learning About Perspective by Carl Griffin
Light reflected from raindrops by Rachel Adatia
Macula lutea by C.W. Thompson
Me, Brain, and Heart in Love’s Palette by Shravana Ganga
Morning at the Painted Wall by Marilyn Wolf


My Hand Is A River by Sarah Osborne
Perception by S.E. Forbes-Fairfax
Polychrome Math by Jacco van Loon
Reflections on Holometaboly by Kristen Dachler Kapfer
Roses are red, and so is Clathrus archeri by Gloria D. Gonsalves
sharp sun reflects in brown bundle brook by Mark Carr
Sheen by Roger Suffling
Spectroscoping by Frances Boyle
The Colour of Beer by Steven Simmonds
the orange bird watches me, the whole time by Zixiang Zhang
The Scientist at Giverny by E. B. Smith, Jr.
The Visible Universe by Bibhuti Narayan Biswal
(Through the Looking Glass of) Nature’s Prism by Art Pallone
Ultramarine by Jean Taylor
What Colour is Nine? by Philip Rösel Baker
White light might not exist by Skye Wilson


Art Pieces with ConciliARTe

Birefringent thinking in a polarised world by Greg McNamara
Departure by Diana Kolpak
Pop Cones by Abbey Morris

Taking the Temperature by Laura Guertin
The ADHD Brain by Kasia Runté


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