"white on white" is an experimental series of labs tracing the multiple dimensions of language and communication while provoking questions about postmodern, anthropocentric worldviews. Through this practice, it invites to create spaces for modes of exchange and meaning-making that honour multispecies care and regenerate the (in)visible systems nourishing life on our planet.

Why white?

 

For the human eye, white is the perception of all visible wavelengths of light in roughly equal proportions. When light enters the eye and hits the retina, it activates three types of photoreceptor cells called cones, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light: red, green, and blue. When all three types of cones are stimulated equally, the brain interprets the color as white.

 

In art and design, white is used symbolically to convey simplicity, purity, or minimalism, which reflects intention to stay open-minded, curious, non-judgemental, explorative. By contrast, in today’s communication, it is often overlaid with layers of striking colors and shapes, to drive persuasion and immediate, engineered response.

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But there's more.

 

When white light passes through a polished-glass prism, the different wavelengths of light bend, revealing the rainbow spectrum visible for a human eye: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This metaphor points to the possibility of breaking our habitual pattern of exclusive, binary perception toward holding paradox where abundance in simplicity, presence within absence, or motion in stillness come into view. This could be a stage offering a pause to re-calibrate and re-enter meaning-making from a different angle.

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Why white on white?

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From a practical point of view, there is no way to see white on white. But we go beyond.