Thought Forms (Some Thoughts)
Thought Forms (Some Thoughts) takes its title from the 1905 book *Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation* by the Theosophists Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater. The book attempts to visualize thoughts, emotions, experiences, and music, proposing a symbolic relationship between color and feeling.
At its frontispiece, a chart of 25 color swatches assigns specific emotions to hues, ranging from "High Spirituality" (light blue) to "Malice" (black). While evocative, these associations remain speculative, with no scientific evidence supporting a direct correspondence between color and emotion. Thought Forms (Some Thoughts) draws from this system while holding it at a distance.
I constructed a visual "score" based on a musical composition, using the durations of seven distinct notes, paired with seven subjectively selected colors from the Thought-Forms chart, each assigned to a corresponding note. The composition unfolds in a continuous loop, in which both the musical and visual sequences remain constant. The only variation is the bass note / base color of the composition, which shifts across six iterations, each represented here by a visual score.