Photo credit: Peter Lee

Photo credit: Peter Lee. Paint color names are designed to evoke a mood or association. I wondered what these color names looked like through the lens of synesthesia. Using names from hardware store paint chips, I created three distinct palettes using the colors associate with the letters in each name.

Photo credit: Peter Lee. “P is for Pink” is a roadmap of my color synesthesia and reflects the letter/color combinations I see. “R is for Red” takes letters and numbers and strips them of their shape. This color chart still reads as the alphabet to me, but it also becomes a system for organizing color […]

Photo credit: Peter Lee. This is the second in a series of four tile panels which depicts my move from decorative compositions to representational imagery of endangered species. In this panel, imagery shifts from native Minnesota wildflowers to invasive garlic mustard and buckthorn.

Photo credit: Eric Mueller. This composition uses data visualization techniques to chart invasive terrestrial species within the Minnesota Three Rivers Park District. Each plant represents a different invasive. They are organized chronologically from left to right, mapping the year the species was added to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Noxious Weed list. Each aspect of […]

Photo credit: Peter Lee. Floating Marsh-marigold (Caltha natans) is an endangered aquatic species that is very sensitive to disturbances such as water level fluctuation from motorboats, increased herbicides and nutrient enrichment in the water, and loss of habitat from invasive species such as Purple Loosestrife. On Nov 1, 2018, the MN DNR issued permits for […]

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