two is yellow.
three is orange.
four is pink.
five is red.
i cannot see six's color.
seven is green.
eight is blue.
nine is purple.
I called Jacob Mertens a few weeks ago to exclaim over the phone that my bizarre number to color relation had a psychological name. I had been listening to NPR and happened to catch the tail end of an interview with a musician who could visualize her music due to something called Synethesia. She also saw each number as possessing an individual color.
Like the wikipedia article about neurological synethesia mentions, I was unaware of this grapheme->color association was unusual until I slowly began to realize that others did not have the same experience. I finally surveyed fellow students when I was fifteen and found out that I was seemingly alone in this experience.
But that's just neurological.
Synthesia in art is very different.
I'm new to this word, this concept, so my thoughts on the topic are scattered.
The brain is a powerful thing, and the world is a complex organism, and all things are one.
One person expresses the experience they have due to a certain stimulus, this expression stimulates experiences in thousands.
To be continued....
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