A poem about color

Only us,
   with no other
   or with others,
can project the colors
onto the lived images
of our experience

World's colorless
without our active sight

The original version of this poem was sent through two series: a first one of four postcards on April 30th of 2025, and a second one (numbered from II-α to II-ξ) of 14 postcards on August 20th of 2025. Each postcard depicted a colorless scene of Paris that could be colored, letting the person receiving the postcard whether or not E wants to project Eir colors onto it. Hence the poem-postcard plays on the idea on how our subjectivity (metaphorized as color projection) shapes our experiences, being the participatory element just an extra emphasis on our active role at experiencing the world and constructing our experience.

In the present on-line version, there is no image that the reader can color at will. Because of this, to emulate the interactive aspect of the postcard-poem, the word “colors” in the poem is randomly colored and it changes its color to a random color each time that it is clicked.