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Terize Formanowski explored concepts from eastern and western cultures in her thesis Uplifting the Soul: Colour Healing and Aesthetic Pleasure for the New Millennium, which led to this recent exhibition in Cairns. lt follows several years of research, during which Formanowski moved from objective to non-objective representation in new media. Cascading into Colour focused on the interplay between viewers and colourful objects, including digital imagery: it looked at the role of the viewer, colour therapy and a world in which our capacity to adjust, depends on our ability to perceive and transform our environment. But the primary concern here was not social transition but rather formal relationships and how they may be modified or transformed to enhance human potential in everyday situations.
Formanowski explains that her 'work investigates the healing value of colour and art in education and society' .1 Her laboratory may be in public art galleries but The Loft Arts pace is neither square nor formal. lt has sloped approaches to short and long walls. With this territory in mind, the artist systematically produced and arranged multidimensional patterns with colourful pigments, digital transparencies and light projections, to create a synergistic setting that triggered unconscious perception. The process of perception itself was focused by experiences with colour rather than figurative elements. Consequently, boundaries dissolved between what was and was not perceived. The issue here was not to bring logic to the gallery experience, but rather refer to feelings, ideals and the potential for using colour in other human environments. Personal factors affecting colour preferences were difficult to suppress while viewing The Power of Light and Colour, in seven battery-operated boxes across one wall . Each was painted a