Color Sensations Project – 12 Colors in 12 Months
My October in Orange Part 1: Expectations and Resistance After Brown After September’s brown, I thought October would be easy. Orange felt like a natural continuation. Autumn. Pumpkins. Falling leaves. Warm light. I was hoping for something close to red – energy, drive, warmth – a color I would slip into and not want to […]
Brown – Part 2: Roots, Reflections, and Letting Go Read Brown – Part 1 first Tension Still Exists Not everything in September was calm. There were tense days too. Nervous ones. September 22nd felt tight and restless. But even then, brown stayed consistent. It didn’t fix anything. It didn’t dramatize anything. It just stayed. Harmony […]
My September in Brown Grounding After White Brown came after white.And I really liked white. White was a good month. Because of that, brown didn’t arrive as relief or contrast. It arrived quietly, almost without announcing itself. White felt open and light, like space. Brown didn’t take that away. It grounded it. A Tabula Rasa […]
If you haven’t read Part 1, I recommend starting there – this second part grows out of the experiences of August and looks at what white carried underneath it all. White as a Holding Color During that first week of illness on holiday, I received the news of my grandmother’s death. August held many celebrations […]
My August in White After turquoise, I stepped into white almost impatiently.I had been waiting for it. I own a lot of white. I like wearing white. And after the heavy months behind me, white felt like a reset. A blank page. A white canvas. Something clean I could step onto without explanation. A Full […]
Read Part 1 first. What Colors Can and Can’t Do When the psyche is struggling, colors can’t “fix” things. Their influence is subtle. Just like with medication – one pill doesn’t cure an illness. It takes time and continuity. Sometimes colors can work instantly, especially high-chroma ones, boosting mood or confidence. But they can’t resolve […]
Entering Turquoise After yellow, I didn’t feel any urgency to change colors. I really loved wearing yellow and could have easily stayed there longer. And yet, every new month in this project brings the same thing with it: curiosity. A quiet anticipation of what a new color might reveal. Before this, I had never really […]
Yellow – the month that arrived when I needed light the most Entering Yellow After the previous color, I entered June feeling restless.Lately, I had been missing a sense of joy in my life. I felt covered in worries and a quiet, underlying dissatisfaction. There was a constant tightness in my chest, moments when I […]
Unprepared I didn’t really enter May with a plan.I was still tired from being sick in April, catching up on things that had been postponed, and already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Everything felt urgent all at once. And then – pink. The first days of May were cold. Really cold. I was freezing and completely […]
After spending a month dressed in gray, April 2025 marked the beginning of my green month as part of my 12 Colors in 12 Months project. Green is a color I have always loved. It never felt challenging or distant to me – quite the opposite. Still, I was curious to see what would happen […]