MONTSE PARIS COLLINS & SYNAESTHESIA

Synaesthesia

I am the painter of The Collins Family and so I will explain Synaesthesia from the perspective of painting.

Usually, the meaning of Synaesthesia is a mixture of feelings. When someone perceives feeling through colours.

How someone with Synaesthesia may perceive words and colours? Have words got colour? 

Normally, new-borns experience the sensations coming from different senses mixed together, as happens to adults who experience the phenomenon of synesthetic perception. Synaesthesia may involve any of the senses. One of the most common in Synesthetic associations is the coloured letters of numbers, but there are Synesthetic people, who hear sounds in response to odors, and odors are perceived in response to touch or a Beethoven’s violin concert is known by him as chocolate.

Synesthetic people ask some questions:

What colour is the number 2? What colour is the sound of a dog? What colour is this musical note?

Nowadays, there are many people see each letter of a particular colour even if they are written in black, or perceive each number, or days of the week or months of the year, arranged in front of them at a particular point in space.

The colours have different meanings, for example:

Black: mystery and formally.

Grey: stability and authority.

Purple: spirituality and magic.

Yellow: energy and intellect.

White: light and clean.

Pink: beauty and love.

Red: Danger and passion.

Blue: peace and tranquillity.

Green: growth and freshness.

In the century XVIII, there was a painter called Vasilly Kadinsky. He was the best painter of abstract art. He was impressionistic and he saw colours listening songs. Then, he painted symphonies while he was listening to Wagner and he represented it in his work.

And finally, all family will do an exercise that we will help us to understand the meaning of Synaesthesia:

Who is Kiki? Who is Booba?

This exercise helps us to understand the moving of our lips to pronounce the two names.

Kiki is the left figure and Booba is the right figure.

Thank you. 

Montse Paris Collins @MontseFJ77