Color and Emotion: Planning

Colors and Their Emotions

BIG Emotions:                                              

• happiness- yellow                                  
• sadness- blue
• anger- red
• love- pink
• annoyed- orange 

small Emotions:

• fear- black
• confusion- multicolor
• passion-purple
• lust- dark pink 
• envy-green

Liquids To Use

• dish soap for yellow
• dark blue gatorade for blue
• red gatorade for red
• water and food coloring for pink
• orange gatorade for orange
• water and mixed food coloring for black
• water and food coloring for multicolor 
• purple gatorade for purple
• vitamin water for dark pink
• dish soap for green

Should I write out the words on the beakers or type the up in unique fonts?

• write them out because that is more personal in terms of emotions

Use different size beakers for small and BIG emotions.

• make love a big beaker but only half full of liquid because sometimes it is a fake emotion
• BIG emotions are the ones you feel on a daily basis
• small emotions are the ones you only feel occasionally 

I went shopping to search for different liquids and it was actually really difficult to find the right colors so I had to experiment with putting flour in the water with the food coloring to help develop the color. I also tried to pick different texture which is why I also used dish soap. 

I emailed a chemistry teacher in the school to ask if I could use the chem lab along with with some supplies (beakers and tape). He said that I could use anything I needed as long as I cleaned up.

I researched how emotions can be represented through color in my last project so I used some of that information do choose my colors for this project. I chose to do this in a chem lab because I feel like emotions today are sometime fake/created. Things we see in media tend to give us a certain emotion and I feel like a lot of them aren't real.

I found an article that talks about how social media can influence emotions and I thought that it related to the idea that emotions can be manufactured and aren't always how we actually feel.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/mar/12/social-network-bad-mood-friends

These are some examples of how I want to set up my beakers in the chem lab. Since my project is pretty unique, it was hard to find inspiration in other works.