A definition

I thought the obvious place to start would be at the definition.. It turns out 'Colour' is not that simple. 'Colour' can be a noun and a verb, in each form having between 4 and 10 definitions. However, to avoid getting side-tracked, I will stick with the one I initially intended to get to know.


Colour (ˈkʌlə) 
noun

A visual perception of the eye as a result of the way light is reflected off an object. 

Colour derives from a spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. 

Not being much of a scientist/biologist myself, this picture doesn't mean much to me (although I feel it adds to the legitimacy of this entry, and why discriminate against the scientists/biologists?).
For the rest of us though this picture makes it pretty clear:

Light enters the eye.. and ba BAM! There is colour!

"The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light." 

                                                  

                                                 Genesis 1:2-3

The start of the journey

Most journey's have a beginning and an end. The end destination is what we all tend to strive for. We are not happy until we have made it, we have arrived. Be it knowing what you will be 'when you grow up', standing at the wedding altar with 'the one' or arriving at Ouma and Oupie's farm for the December holiday. 

Sometimes, I think that the journey is actually more important than the destination. What makes it an adventure - not knowing where you will end up. 

So here's to an adventure. 13 weeks of enquiry into the world of colour. What I will find? I don't know. But what I do know is that I will be different from what I was today, before I started.

Start: Colour
End destination: Unknown