Mini Kat, My Being & I

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Transforming the colours We cannot see.

Absorbed by Mini Kat. Refracted by Being. Reflected in I.

©KAT

Moving beyond the earlier paintings of ‘Simply Kat’ where I utilized my love of painting as a way of seeing, understanding and accepting trauma, to consciously applying my passion for - and scientific knowledge of – colour, to transform the imprint of the trauma still held in my body – my nervous system. A place where time functions simultaneously as present and the past of that present.

I understand Colour as both a material and a language. As light and as a sensation. Colours – like trauma – can be understood as sensations caused by features of the environment which stimulate our senses. Colour lies at the interaction of light (energy) with matter (body). Trauma – for me - is embodied emotion. It is emotional energy absorbed by and stored in my body (matter).

We do not see wavelength - we experience colour. We do not see emotional energy - we experience physical sensations in the body.

There are colours we experience yet cannot perceive – the Chimerical Colours - and there are colours we cannot see, though we know they exist – the hidden colours. When colour - light - is absorbed, refracted or reflected by matter, the energy changes. Changing the energy alters the wavelength, which in turn transforms the colour.

Can I apply these same principles of colour theory to trauma, and use it to transform the emotional energy stored in my body?

Mini Kat, My Being & I

Transforming the colours We cannot see.

Absorbed by Mini Kat

Refracted by Being

Reflected in I