Wednesday, 25 March 2009

October 23rd 2008

Our class was asked write down the colours Red, Blue, Green, White and Black each as headings, and to write down underneath all the things that remind us of that colour. We all then shared what we put down and combined our lists. These were our lists:

RED
Anger
Hearts
Love
Crabs
Lobsters
Stress
Tongue
Lips
Violence
Danger
Roses
Liverpool
Blood
Heat
Hot
Urgency
Romance
Stop
Hell
Devil
Murder
Strawberries
Passion
Lust
Happiness
Red riding hood
Fire

BLUE
Sea
Sky
Dory
Everton
Fresh
Tranquillity
Tears
Water
Sad
Peaceful
Ice
Depression

GREEN
Grass
Peas
Brussels
Nature
Fresh
Summer
Go
Illness
Infection
Countryside
Trees
Vegetables
Leaves
Recycling
Environment
Healthy
Jealousy

WHITE
Mental
Plates
Peace
Plain
Purity
Blank
Clinical
Sterile
Emptiness
Clean
Heaven
Cold
Marriage
Angels
Clouds
Snow
Light
Death
Virginity

BLACK
Mosher
Emo
Metal music
Bats
Halloween
Cat
Evil
Depressed
Storm
Spiders
Sheep
Witches
Goths
Dark
Depressing
Death
Funeral
Stress
Alone
Seductive
Sexy
Mourning
Grief

All these words are connotations of colour, and all the connotations in each list seem to contradict each other. For example: Red connoting ‘Love’ and ‘Violence’, or Blue connoting ‘Calm’ and ‘Depression’.

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