Phantom Colors

The creation of my artworks is always an explorative process. I layer different colored filters in front of the lights and see how the colors interact with the form and how the camera sensors pick them up.

During this almost meditative process, I've stumbled upon the creation of a few Phantom Colors. Colors that don't exist in light, but are nonetheless present when I capture them through photography.

These colors - browns and greys - do not exist as wavelengths in light, lighting filters cannot create them, and LED light sources cannot mix them. Grey is a decrease in tonality and when seen as light, is a decrease in luminosity. Brown is an orange or amber color that has decreased in tonality or luminosity. On computer screens, these are rendered through decreased light output in those areas as well as a relativity of colors surrounding it.