This is something I invented, because I like the idea of working through the spectrum of light as a continuous circle, moving with the seasons. I created the following diagram to illustrate this concept, and you can see that I have included the image of a human body and a lineal depiction of the colour spectrum. This is my rainbow year: Red is the lowest frequency of light that we can see with the naked eye. Its wavelengths are long and slow. In terms of sound vibrations, this would be a very low pitch. This is why it is often considered a "masculine" colour, because the vibrations are associated with the low pitch of a man's voice. As it is the lowest frequency we see, I associate it with the lowest point of the sun, at Winter Solstice. Red is a popular colour to use during Yuletide celebrations. Red is also the colour of "stop" signs, signalling the end of the year and a period of rest. Red is also associated with the Muladhara chakra. The seed mant...

I have been working on this little painting, it's not finished yet, because I'm not sure how it's going to develop, but my thinking behind it is a diagram of Aristotle's classical elements. This photo isn't brilliant, so what what looks like a black area is actually blue and purple. I am trying to combine the idea of the classical elements, with the scientific states of matter, and the spectrum of visible light. Aristotle  was one of the first to publicly hypothesize about the nature of light, proposing that light is a disturbance in the element  air  (that is, it is a wave-like phenomenon). On the other hand,  Democritus  argued that all things in the universe, including light, are composed of indivisible sub-components (light being some form of solar atom). Today, the theory of  wave–particle duality  postulates that all  particles  exhibit both  wave  and  particle  properties. In the diagram above I have comp...