Friday, November 23, 2007
Sedimentary Jello
I made sedimentary jello for the children last week. Needless to say, it was a huge hit. Nathan did point out that I had forgotten the "indigo" color but I was running out of space in my pan. Plus I couldn't figure out how to distinguish between the blue of the berry blue jello and the indigo of food coloring enhanced berry blue jello.
2 comments:
shoot, now THAT I've done but didn't call it school! LOL.
I stand on my artsy-fartsy laurels as a firm believer in exposing the "lie of indigo" ~ I believe the "i" in ROYGBiV was added to make it more pronounceable. Think about it, there are only three primary colors (RYB) and therefore three secondary colors (OGV (or P)) -- there's no *place* on the color wheel to separate indigo and blue. At best it is a tertiary color that should hold no place on the wheel. But I don't even think it's that, I think it's the name of a type of blue, and we can't give all the names of blue spots on the spectrum.
So good for you for bucking the indigo fallacy, even if you did so unwittingly. :-)
Alright...
after doing a little research I see the historical validity of *mentioning* indigo when discussing the spectrum, as Newton named it as one of the 7 colors of the spectrum. But he was, as far as I can ascertain, compelled to break things into 7's to correspond with musical notes and days of the week and planets (and we all know how that planet thing turned out) so I still hold that indigo is artificially included in the spectrum and color wheel.
I, for one, will respect it's historical significance, but still also exclude it from being a distinct member of the spectrum. :-)
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