TRICHROMA
Thesis Faculty:
Jesse HardingTRICHROMA brings together phenomenology, color perception, and kinetic motion to shift how we relate to color - not as something to be seen, but as something to be felt. Eighty servo motors drive CMY-filtered acrylic tiles, casting moving colored shadows that respond to presence. The result is an introspective environment where the viewer's inner experience becomes the subject of the work.
Do you see red the same way I see red?
Maybe you feel a certain way about the color purple…
Color is not a fact. It is a feeling — private, personal, and impossible to fully share. ‘TRICHROMA’ was built around that question.
Eighty motors drive cyan, magenta, and yellow filtered tiles in slow, fluid motion, casting shifting colored shadows that are never quite the same twice. The animation is unhurried by design. It asks you to slow down, to notice what color actually does to you before you have a word for it.
Stand next to someone. You are both looking at the same thing. But are you feeling the same thing?
