Week 1
When the Muse Built the Castle
Week 3
Echoes from the Algorithm ( Week 3)
When Colour Sings
“I am a feather on the breath of God."
Hildegard of Bingen
Centuries before the term “synaesthesia" was coined Hildegard of Bingen experienced vision as a fusion of the senses. She described sound as light and colour and colour as a kind of living music an indivisible language of the divine. Her chants were born from images. Her images hummed with melody.
Goethe in the 19th century explored the emotional power of colour in his Theory of Colours believing that hues carried psychological and even moral weight.
Kandinsky a century later made the leap to pure abstraction speaking of “hearing" yellow “seeing" blue and translating musical composition into painted form.
In this lineage Hildegard stands as a medieval ancestor of a modern truth: that art is not bound to one sense. The muse speaks in spectra. Creation is a chorus of the eyes and ears together.