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design of this site is based around sets of colours I have collected this
year. Walking down Kingston Hill on a crisp, orange afternoon last Autumn,
I picked up a handful of leaves. When I got home I scanned them in to my
computer and, magnifying the image until all I could see were individual
pixels, I chose the sixteen shades which best seemed to define the mood
of the season and filled squares with them. I'm not especially well-known
for my visual sense but even I could see that the colours I'd selected had
an inherent coherence. I had no idea what I would do with these colours
but I resolved to follow up with a Winter version and one for Spring, and
I'm currently collecting a Summer version. The Winter one comes from a walk
at New Year on the banks of Loch Ness, and includes the bark of Silver Birch,
heather shoots and local stone all reduced to 16 hopelessly insufficient
colours. Spring was in my garden here in Hackney on the first warm day.
The blues which dominate the site are actually the result of reversing the
Winter shades. Feel free to download the gifs below if you are stuck for
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