Ron Täubert and the colour white |
| Ron Täubert and the colour “white”. After that brief introduction, let us now turn our attention to the actual topic of this site. The colour white. Again we find ourselves faced with a problem; namely, whether the colour white is even a colour at all, or if white is actually a neutral value in the absence of colour. If white can be “non-red” or “non-green”, it follows that it’s a “non-thing”, a “nothing”. There’s some highly interesting material on Wikipedia on the subject of “white”. There “white” is described as an “achromatic colour” with “zero hue”. These definitions appear in relation to “black”, incidentally. Colour perception is controlled by so-called retinal cones in the human eye. That’s a funny phrase. “You’re a real shot in the retinal cone, Mr. Täubert!”
White – oh, you achromatic colour, you state of nothingness! The opposite of black. So bright and pure, so clear and free, so white, so white! “I enjoy reading this poem at Christmas parties and similar events. It really touches people’s hearts when they hear it. Children are fond of it, too, because it’s very short. The poem is also the first in my series entitled “Farbengedichte”, or “Colour Poems”. It can also be very refreshing to recite one of my colour poems while driving. They generally have a strong sedative effect. The poem “White” is ideal for drives through Austria in the wintertime”. Ron Täubert, 2004 Gedanken
zur Wahrnehmung (Thoughts on Perception), Interesting to note that nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, has a colour. It’s all just perceptions we think we are seeing. What a stroke of luck that all of us interpret all of these perceptions in the same way. But then, that has always been part of the Täubert world view. Nothing is real, nothing is true. Everything is always just a perception that we deem to be true. What a bunch of naive fools we are. Read it in black on white, or green on yellow, or however you want to read it. It’s not real anyway. „How true .“ Ron Täubert, 2004 |