The Inversion of Color

I know we aren’t working with color but I thought the discussion of what our work would look like if the black and white pieces were switched. I found myself wondering the same thing about everyone’s work and it is interesting how something so small and simple can change the entire work so drastically, giving it an entire different energy.

This idea got me thinking about elementary school when everyone thought it was so cool to invert the colors on their computers, and how off putting that looked. This is the work of an artist known as Sepc, who is based in Colombia. They have been sprinkling the streets with these murals of inverted color. Only when a viewer takes a snapshot and flips the colors in the digital image using their photo editing software of choice will the “normal” or “positive” colors be revealed. The fact that his works are eye grabbing on their own, but also require a multimedia approach in order to be fully experienced is very compelling.

“I want the viewer to capture the photograph and ‘reveal’ the image, get another kind of experience with urban art and in some way join it to the digital age and take advantage of it to create related fields between technology and other areas. I want the viewer to capture the photograph and ‘reveal’ the image, get another kind of experience with urban art ”