Doris White's 'Posies for Predators' & Male Colorblindness

Artist Doris Mitsch’s ‘Posies for Predators’ is a fascinating exploration of the visual experience of people (and carnivores) with Protanopia and Deuteranopia-type (red-green) color blindness.

Red-green color blindness affects about seven or eight percent of American men and most predatory animals.

For lions, it may reduce the effect of some kinds of camouflage. But what about the men? Do they have some advantage in seeing the world on a more level chromatic playing field, without all that heat and relief? Or are they missing something the rest of us can’t imagine doing without?

Doris Mitch’s technique involves using both a flatbed scanner and computer, rather than a camera.

“I’m interested in what happens when you isolate familiar objects and look at them with unfamiliar closeness and clarity, or from unfamiliar perspectives,” Mitsch says.

Seeing these images while posting Zhang Jingna’s bridal editorial for SingaporeBrides, they seem to go together. Mitch’s flowers are gorgeous without being erotic or voluptuous. There is a sensual restraint very similar to the atmosphere of Jingna’s women in bridal whites. Fascinating!

via Ecosalon