Colours and Light | Created by Alex Wain

My friend Kate once mentioned to me that ‘colour therapy’ is actually a viable alternative medicine. It’s mainly referred to as “Chromotherapy“. Whilst I’m deeply sceptical about the benefits of Feng Shui (move the chair and you’ll be happy) or Aromatherapy (smell yourself better), other alternative medicines such as Iridology, Kinesiology and Acupuncture seem to carry more weight and for me at least seem a little less far-fetched.

Think about Aromatherapy for a second, have you ever seen an aromatherapist at the scene of an accident? Pushing past paramedics, yelling “Make way, I can help this man and his severed arm!! I have some lavender and some tea-tree oil….” 

But acupuncture, now THAT, has been around since the dawn of time and both that and kinesiology certainly helped me far more than physiotherapy or the mailable hands of chiropractors.

So where exactly does “Chromotherpay” sit on the medicine wheel? An utterly absurd pseudoscience or a worthwhile and potentially valid form of alternative therapy? 

It actually dates back to both Chinese and Egyptian culture. In traditional Chinese medicine, each one of your organs is associated with a colour. Ancient Egyptians built  rooms (not dissimilar to a solarium), which could be fitted with colored panes of glass. The sun would shine through the glass and flood the patient with color. 

The over-arching concept is that different colours cause your body to act and respond in different manner. The colour blue for example is designed to cool inflamation and reduce blood flow. Does that sound even half believeable? I didn’t think so either. But I do find the concept of it quite intriguing, if only for a fleeting moment.

However, all this talk of colour, did inspire me to visit this rather addictive site created by Adobe called Kuler. It’s  design to let you try out, create and save various color schemes. Seriously I spent hours playing around haha and then on the wave of inspiration I put this together.

It’s nice to be productive in your downtime innit.

Alex