The Same Color

A live color study after Josef Albers, who painted nested squares for twenty-six years to prove you have never seen a color by itself. Nine of his classroom experiments run here in code: one color becomes two, two colors become one, opaque paint becomes glass, a long stare pays out a color no screen can render, a flat gray bends, a weave of royal and gold fuses in the eye, one thread recolors a whole rug, a spinning black-and-white disk conjures color out of nothing, and an endless run of generated Homages continues his series in squares and quarter circles. Every deception is performed fresh, each time, by your own eyes. This one moves; click through and be deceived.