More color, less attention.
Area establishes hierarchy. Attention doesn't always obey it.
Open · collectingThe arrangement
Three colors. One frame. Three regions in fixed positions, holding the same amounts of space in every arrangement. The only thing that changes between A1, A2 and A3 is which color occupies which region — each color takes the largest, the middle and the smallest region exactly once.
What changes
- Which color occupies each region
What is held
- The three colors
- Region positions and their areas
- Geometry, shape, spacing
- Frame and display size
The first question
Which reads as the lead?
Look at each arrangement on its own before comparing them.
This question is about hierarchy — which color the composition organizes itself around. It is not a question about which color you noticed first. Those are different things, and this study keeps them apart on purpose.
The second question
The same arrangement, made smaller.
Nothing changes but the size at which it is seen.
A composition that reads clearly at full size can behave differently in the places people actually encounter it. That is the boundary this study is testing.
Lineage
The historic color studies of Sanzo Wada. A relationship between three colors, taken as a starting point rather than as a conclusion.
Three arrangements holding everything constant except which color occupies which region, then the same arrangement rendered at three sizes.
Not yet. This study is open and still collecting. When there is something worth stating, it will be stated here — with what it rests on, and where it stops.
Inspired by the historic color studies of Sanzo Wada.
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