Saturate by Chris Down, 2006

This essay examines work by Vancouver artists Leigh Bridges and Mark Neufeld in relation to certain thoughts about the efficacy of colour as a potentially subversive force in contemporary painting. In particular, I will explore the possibility that the address colour makes to our perception is precisely how it might be of value as a disruptive constituent in painting today. Although the work of both Bridges and Neufeld is nominally representational, a dialogue with the history of 20th century abstraction is clearly
evident in the lush, colouristic atmospheres and strong planar compositions of the paintings under consideration. I will therefore also make some reference to this history and the vital, if contentious, role that colour and its theorization have played in its development.

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On Climate and Metabolism by Lucy Pullen, 2005

Four humours govern our existence. A color, a climate, an organ, and
a temperament distinguish one from the next. A yellowish-green
colour is associated with the phlegmatic character. The phlegmatic
climate is cold and moist. In it, the lungs are acerbated by phlegm to
produce a sluggish, pallid and cowardly temperament. Maybe you
know this person.

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