Wet Rainbow.

Patrick HUGHES

Wet Rainbow

See, the way he uses the visual rainbow colours that are screen printed, but they are obviously flat, not like a 'real' (I can't say the word real now without it being totally ridiculous, as to me, even the word real isn't real) rainbow. Rainbows cast light that is not by any means flat. As "What Makes a rainbow?" explains;

"Rainbows are seen when raindrops, falling in the distance, bend and bounce sunlight back towards your eye. Raindrops reflect sunlight, like a mirror. However raindrops also bend, or refract, light, like a lens. The reflection is spread into a cone of light. The collection of raindrops that send the same bright colour towards your eye is curved."

(Emphasis on 'bending', 'curve' and 'cone')
(http://museumvictoria.com.au/scidiscovery/rainbows/whatmakes.asp)

So I from this picture, it alights destructive fires of knowledge about rainbows never being flat. But for someone else, they may see a rainbow that reminds them of a special something...

Maybe the key is to use items that people naturally associate pieces of their life with to ignite a response.

(P.S. Please ignore the 'me' shaped reflection in the picture. Oops.)