Why do we use the color red to signal stop?
Red has longest wavelengths we can perceive with our eyes.
Longer wavelengths are infrared waves, microwaves and radio waves.
We can’t see these longer waves, but can we sense them?
I often wonder if we can feel red somehow.
When it is mixed with other colors it demands our attention.
When it’s bright and big it makes us pause.
What does red light beaming at us feel like subconsciously?
Why does it universally mean stop?
Red Hot.
Red Devil.
Do we all have an ancient memory of blood red danger?
Does red make some of us blush and make others feel angry?
How does red make us feel?
I wonder…
FOLLOW the FLOWER.
Lovely photos! Those two vines near the end are wonderful! Years ago, I set the color for my kids’ school, and used color psychology to do so. When it was done, I wrote a little thing for the Middle Schoolers because I thought they might find it interesting. There is a version of it on my other blog, if you are interested. 🙂 https://thecreativeflux.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/why-so-many-colors/
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This article and the school paintings were incredibly well done. You amaze me again! I printed it for my notebooks. (I keep notebooks on everything.) Thank you so much for your comment.
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So glad you enjoyed it! Colors fascinate me, and it always irks me that marketing and advertising are so good at manipulating us with it. Kids are more easily manipulated than most, and the rebel in me really wanted to clue them in. 🙂
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It can be a difficult colour to place in the garden and even more difficult to photograph! You did a great job. I love the bleeding heart vine. It can only be a houseplant for me sadly.
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