OBS-ART-013
Anne Truitt — Color as Weight
Color as Weight
OBS-ART-013
Material Intelligence
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Anne Truitt
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color volume • vertical plane • boundary

Color as Weight

Anne Truitt — Color as Weight

Color accumulates density.

Saturation carries mass.

Weight settles.

What presses forward?

Color is often treated as optical or immaterial, but that reading does not hold.

Saturation gathers density rather than dissolving it.

What persists is mass carried by hue.

Structural Concepts

Material Intelligence
Material behavior actively determines structural and formal decisions.
Color
Hue and value used as a structural condition.
Weight
The perceived or actual heaviness of a form.
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