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WHAT COLOUR IF FRIDAY?

Does that sound like a nonsense question to you? Or did
you react with a colour right away? If you instantly had a
colour in mind you might be one of the people who ex-
perience “Synaesthesia”

Synaesthesia is a phenomenon where the senses seem to
cross over and one sense simultaneously triggers a
response in another. For example, someone with
Synaesthesia might see music as colours and lines or feel
flavours as textures and forms. It can also include
cognitive skills such as numeracy with Synesthetic
visualising certain numbers as shapes in a landscape.
People with this sort of experience can often quickly
solve mathematical problems by picturing an equation as
a sort of landscape and seeing which shapes/numbers
are missing or where certain numbers should be. For the
Wikipedia definition of Synaesthesia, just click on the
link at the bottom of this page.

I’m just thinking about Synaesthesia and how it might
affect my Art – both in terms of how people respond to
my paintings and how they ‘see’ my art and whether I am
influenced by Synaesthesia at all when I create it. I’m
wondering whether we all have a certain level of
Synaesthesia and how it affects our responses to things
like Art & Design. How it affects our choices of things
like interior decor, food or clothing and how much it
influences our creativity when we compose music, paint
pictures or prepare food and so on.