You do something to me that I can't explain....

When I was at school, my Art Teacher told me,( in fact, she told the whole class so I have witnesses), that there were no colours.

The colours which I could see when I opened my eyes, were a reaction of the surface material to light.

Nothing had colour.

Everything was nothingness, and in the dark, with no light on, everything was colourless. I'm confused as to whether that was meant that when the light went off, everything was black.... or grey... or did it disappear?

I tested this theory lots of times; mostly when I was walking home from the pub at 2am in the morning. It was dark then. My dress was still pink, or blue, or green, or grey. I stood in car parks where there were no street lights, and shouted out the colours of cars to my mate who agreed enthusiastically with me.

If this is the truth (which I seriously doubt), how do you make paint? How can you make a colour of paint, if it isn't really a colour at all, but only a reflection of light on the surface?

And this.. look at this. Gray carpet, with little blue flecks in it. How do you make Flecks??? How do you make flecks in something if everything is a reflection?

And then, of course, my rainbow. that is a reflection of light, it's making colours, but because that stripe of carpet is a rainbow just now, doesn't mean it's that colour all the time.

As you can see, I'm struggling with my brain today after the pills of yesterday


:-)

I thank you.