The sky is a multicolour, November 2025, Digital painting
The sky is a multicolour II, November 2025, Digital painting
The sky is a multicolour is a visual exploration of our perception of the sky through a series of digital paintings and photographs. This body of work was created during a period of daily sky-gazing rituals simulating Tibetan Buddhist traditional rituals. During these rituals the individual looks at the sky as a focal grounding point for meditation, using breathing techniques to guide the meditation.
Through this framework, The sky is a multicolour poses the re-examination of colour as a solid unchanging entity to a fluid state. Not only does the sky change colour every second, phenotypes can be observed through light exposure from the sky. An example of a phenotype is the light imprint that results from burning our eyes by looking at the sun. The phenotypes formed from looking at the sky become a different colour to what was originally there, for example the yellow of the sun will become a blue phenotype in our eyes, showing an alternative colour to the sky.
While performing sky gazing rituals, I observed these phenotypes and meditated on potential end points to the sky. Is the light dying in our eyes the end of the sky? Does the sky fall through colour, fall into us through phenotypes? How do we impact the sky? How does our breath feed the sky? How does our light feed the sky, turning it orange at night through streetlights. If we jump, do we become the sky?
Each painting displayed began as a photograph of a blue sky and was then transformed through digital editing techniques to reveal the full spectrum of colour and detail that the camera and the computer can perceive. The sky is a multicolour invites viewers to reconsider the sky not as a static blue expanse, but as a dynamic, multicoloured field of possibility.