Reese's Task Number Three

Gaspar Noe takes advantage of Tokyo’s excessive use of incredibly brilliant neon lights in his film Enter the Void. Their buzzing sounds and colours that fill the atmosphere often reflect the overall mood and experiences of the characters. For example, near the beginning of the film, before Oscar experiences drug-induced hallucinations, there is a part during the scene when the varying lights beyond the balcony become blurred while he begins to feel the effects of the drugs and then momentarily blacks out. These colours emerge again during an abstract psychadelic hallucinatory sequence. I began to think of situations where similar bright and saturated colours could exist in the world naturally and my first thoughts were the aurora borealis and sunrise. The sunrise, in particular, is an often photographed and highly romanticized subject. Google can prove it. I entered "sunrise" while searching through Google images and was provided with pages upon pages of various sunrise photographs. I layered around the first fifty of them together with Photoshop, which resulted in the above image. The quality and distribution of hues are usually the same within each frame, allowing the most dominant ones to hold their position in the final flattened piece. While the forms and structures aren't as distinguishable as in the original Google pictures, the particular harmony of colour, saturation and brightness that are already familiar to us can be easily recognized. This is another example of how personal experiences are often linked to our interpretations of colour, fueling affect and the alluring qualities of an image.