DNA of Blue

                      DNA of Blue

9/11 exposed the devastating fact that there is no
common understanding of what it means to be human in
a global age. Although scientists have mapped the human
genome which codifies every DNA strand in a human
being, this tells little about common human experience.
Color is something very basic that all people experience
deeply, yet each person sees it differently, and that
experience changes with every vision. In the DNA of
Blue project, I invite people to join in an experiment in
beauty, and perhaps by chance to discover a communal
sense of what it means to be human in a global age.

This project unfolds on several levels. Participation starts
in real time when I invite people to make their own
arrangements of 12 different shapes and hues of blue. I
take a photo of the arrangement and it becomes part of
the photo collection, where its afterlife begins. The
collection is gathered into strands, groups or single
photographs. On this website is the work that's been
collected so far.  I hope to take this project to many
different countries to create a cultural survey of a global
vision of the color blue.


Margaret Parker, begun in 2006
www.margaretparkerstudio.com