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STEP 25.º - Final synthesis

Storie delle Cose is a course of Politecnico di Torino that is given by the teacher Vittorio Marchis. In this course we are called to create a blog where we explore a color in a lots, if not every, aspects of it.
The color that I had was ametista [italian], amethyst [english], and because I am an Erasmus student I decided to write this blog totally in english.

This work was very interesting to do because it not only made me love this color more, but it opened my eyes to see the color behind the color itself and explore a new range of concepts. Which I find very interesting to my Design degree, where I use color very often in my design works.
The first thing I noticed when I started this work, with the posts ‘’Definitionof the Color’’, and ‘’The color Code’’ was that I could almost never separate the color from the gemstone that has the color on it.
The post ’’Foreigh Color’’ made me realize that almost in every language this color was prenounced the same way, which means that this gemstone that is associated to this color was very popular in everywhere.
I think this association happens because before all the new painting and printing tecniques where invented, the only way that people knew this shade of purple/violet has trought this gemstone, and now it’s impossible to disconnect on from another. After I started doing the post ‘’The color in myth’’ and ‘’Thecolor in music’’ understood that this color and gemstone had more to it, not only because there was ancient stories about it but because I started to have my own feelings about the color.
When I arrived to post ‘’The color in Science’’ I was surprised by the studies that have been done with this color and respective gemstone and the results where very interesting. I have to admit that I found myself loving this color more than I used to because of it’s effects in this studies.
It wasn’t difficult to realise that the movie I would choose for my color was going to be Alladin’s from Disney. The color fits perfectly because of the magic and mystery of this movie. On the ‘’Vignetta’’ post I found a caracter that is amethyst named and colored from some new comics.

Passing on to the ‘’Color in Design’’, I already knew that Karim Rashid used to use a lot of pinks/purples in his creations [actually pink is his favourite color] and it was not difficult to see a lot of his creations with amethyst color. On the Advertising and a more graphic aproach I discovered some posters that I collected from Behance [behance is a site here we can share some of our graphic design work]. The color in architecture was something I didn’t quite knew, because it is still a project, and it’s not completed.
On ‘’ABC’’ and ‘’Emblem’’ posts I could not left the gemstone appart because this duality makes a lot of sense and everything blends really well together. In the ‘’Document’’ it was intereting to see that there’s a lot of chemistry connected to the color. The ‘’Patent’’ has to do with jewerly, that is actually the way people used Amethyst in the past, and still in the present has you can see in Protagonist post.
Finding my color in the kitchen was not so easy, because I found more of artificial pigments to make food look this shade of purple/violet than real picmented food. So I made an effort to put some ingredients that are, naturaly amethyst colored.
The pictorial arts I found that artists where using this color to shake things a little bit, by introducing new colors in the nature palette that where always there but in a subtle way.
When I searched for the Fashion post, I found a lot of beautiful gowns from Elie Saab runway show, and all his collections was in this shade.
Because I came from Portugal, I’ve never saw a lot of animals with this color, but in the ‘’Wild Color’’ I found a specie of fishes that are exactly my color.
On the ‘’Anatomy of the Color’’ I tried to break down a little bit this connection with the gemstone so I didn’t repeat myself, so I tried to search some of the chakras meaning about this color.
‘’Color Cloud’’ was more of a resume of this concepts, and all the words I found that were really connected to this color.
After all, I have to say that, I fell in love with this color deeper and deeper trought the work, because I really got to know it well.

STEP 24.º - The color cloud

Light Violet Shade// Mysterious// Royalty// Magic color// Spirituality// Purifying// Attractive// Gemstone// Calmness// Precious// Not intoxicated// Diana// reconciliation// Integrity// Ambitious// Creativity// Mauve//

STEP 19.º - Color's anatomy

Wait, what?
Do I have to describe myself? But in what way?
Do I really need to?
Well okay, but just because you insist so much and I trust you. Hi there, my name is Amethyst, but my code name is hex #9966cc, starting with the physical part: I think I am not so dark but not fully light, part purple part violet.
In the emotional part I think I’m quite, mysterious a little bit shy. But afterall I’m a happy color, I also transmite to others calmness and knowledge. I lot of people think that I am precious… If I had to choose I think I would like to be a woman, because I think of myselft more feminine than masculine. I also think that I’am unsual, not everyone would pick me out of a chromatic palette at first, but that’s maybe because I’m diferente and edgy.

Violet/purple/ametista is the crown chakra color - our connection with the energy of heaven. Violet is the color of spirituality. It has the shortest wavelength and the highest vibration of the colors of the visible spectrum of light.

Violet offers and inner sense of wholeness. With wholeness comes a sense of ending, completion of a process, and a promise of something new, illumination, rebirth.

Violet connects with sadness of letting go and also with joy of transformation. There is peace and tranquility in the newfound knowledge of profound change.

Violet color is cleansing and purifying. It is the color of magic, ritual, cleansing, purifying, connecting, mystery, and mysticism.

It is a color that allows us to glimpse other realities, beyond our physical and material reality of this earthly existence. It is pure cosmic energy.

Violet is a color of reconciliation. Of bringing together polarities - male and female, day and night, hot and cold, heaven and earth, right brain and left brain.

In this state of balance, you feel the connection with other beings, with heaven, with earth, with all of Universe. There is no separation, no duality.

As you unfold the petals of your crown chakra, you find the seat of your wisdom. You assimilate knowledge and integrate it. You know and you understand. You manifest divinity.

Physical Level

On a physical crown chakra color violet relates to the cerebral cortex, the skull, and the brain.

People with balanced violet energy have all their chakras spinning smoothing, energy in their body is flowing freely from bottom to the top. They radiate health, peace, and effortless energy.

Challenges

brain tumor
amnesia
coma
autism
headaches at the crown of the head
learning disabilities

Gifts

healthy nervous system
sharp mind
excellent cognitive skills
excellent overall health
healthy reflexes and responses to changes in environment (e.g. healthy stress response)
connected to the body physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually

Mental Level

Violet people are open minded, curious, and deep thinkers. They love learning, studying, and reading. They question what they learn, introspect and find connections and patterns within everything. No subject is too dull or boring to learn.

The biggest challenge of violet on a mental level is when someone is too withdrawn and attached to the materialistic pursuits of this existence - overindulging in earthly pursuits and stuck in their way of thinking. Unwilling to open up to other ideas, thoughts, or knowledge.

Challenges

materialistic
greedy
dominates others
stuck in one way of thinking
invalidates beliefs of others
cognitive delusions and impairment
slow learner
over intellectualizes

Gifts

able to perceive, analyze and assimilate information
intelligent
curious, wants to learn
open minded, likes to question
imaginative
introspective
feels the unity of all thing

Emotional Level

Violet is an energy of completion - of an end of a cycle. It is a color of letting go, to give space for something new to be born.

On an emotional level, crown chakra color violet may contain deep grief and sadness, suffering within the joy of living, accepting the journey of life here on earth.

The challenge of violet energy is when it is blocked or excessive and it manifests as psychosis, dissociation from the body, being disconnected and ungrounded.

Challenges

psychosis
feeling overwhelmed
confusion, frustration
dissociation
apathy
feelings of isolation
depression
lack of inspiration
feeling ungrounded

Gifts

intuitive and perceptive
sensitive
wisdom and mastery
spiritually connected
aware
emotionally balanced
peaceful, calm
joyful
connected with heaven and grounded here on earth

STEP 23.º - A Wild color

The Elusive Purple Betta
Outwardly, breeding for purple seems to be a simple matter of covering up a layer of red pigment on bettas with a layer of blue. Oftentimes it seems that some shades of royal blue lean towards purple/violet, and therefore it should only be a small step to bring them to a true purple shade. However, introducing red into a line of royals will usually only give the breeder blues with excessive red wash, or red/blue multicolors, No purple bettas. Some variations of purple body/secondary color fins have come out under the various names of Purple Gas, Purple Popsicle, Purple Salamander and the like, and these are very attractive fish, but are not by definition a pure, solid-colored purple like the artist's conceptual photo (also one of this site's most "stolen" photographs, indicative of the desire of betta lovers the world over wanting solid purple fish!).

Betta Fish

STEP 21.º - The protagonist

Queen Silvia of Sweden

Queen Silvia Stamp

To the protagonist of this color, amethyst, I think that it could be one of the sweden royal family, the Queen Silvia.
This lady wears, a lot of times, this shades of purple/violet in the clothes, but also the jewerly of the royal family has amethyst stones in it, has you can see in the next photo.

STEP 20.º - The color in fashion

Ellie Saab - 2014

Elie Saab for Paris Fashion week 2014 has created a few dresses with all the same shades of color, in which I think amethyst is in.

They are really delicate and gives us the feeling of calmness.

STEP 18.º - Pictorial Arts

La tondeuse de moutons Vincent Van Gogh,1889

Vincent van Gogh was confronted with the colour theories of Charles Blanc in 1884.This book was one of the most important sources of inspiration for Van Gogh’s use of colour. Blanc gave a clear overview of the theory in which the contemporary colours played a key role. These are colours positioned opposite of each other on the colour circle and which are enforced when placed next to each other (red-green, blue-orange, purple-yellow). Van Gogh started experimenting with these contrasts in Nuenen

A M E T I S T A

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STEP 25.º - Final synthesis

STEP 24.º - The color cloud

STEP 19.º - Color's anatomy

Physical Level

Mental Level

Emotional Level

STEP 23.º - A Wild color

STEP 21.º - The protagonist

STEP 20.º - The color in fashion

STEP 18.º - Pictorial Arts

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