Affective
Geometry
A feeling
has a form.
Shape sets a boundary.
Color fills it.
Each sketch gives an emotional state a bounded figure and a field of color. A circle, a triangle, a square: familiar forms become places to explore how feeling might be represented.
One form becomes
a family.
The contact sheet brings the variations together: 25 shapes and 25 palettes, working within a 169-colour field gamut. Seen together, the studies reveal how much can change inside a simple outline.
A sketch,
put into practice.
These shapes became the shapes in Chroma. A visual study moved into an everyday setting: a private journal, where a person can give a moment form and return to it later.
Visit Chroma ↗Project details
- Period
- 2026–ongoing
- Location
- New York
- Form
- Art / geometric studies
- Status
- Active study
About the project
An art project that theorizes emotion as shape and color.
Each sketch takes an emotional state and renders it as a bounded geometric figure filled with a field of color. The plates are a proof of concept for giving affective computational geometry a visible form.
These are sketches. The shapes drawn here became the shapes in Chroma.
Study
Shape
A bounded geometric figure gives an emotional state a form.
Field
Color fills the figure, giving that form an affective character.
The study works across 25 shapes and 25 palettes within a 169-colour field gamut. Individual plates hold the shape apart so its relationship to the color field can be read.
Study record
- Material
- 2D geometric plates
- Range
- 25 shapes / 25 palettes
- Gamut
- 169 colours
- Application
- The shapes became part of Chroma
