HEARTBEAT
Heartbeat of the Open System. It represents the two fundamental ways energy and matter interact to create the reality we see—the Additive and Subtractive molecular arrangements of light.
1. The Additive System (The "Electron Exhales")
On the left, you have the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) model.
The Light: This is how your Mac Pro Tower and your XXX Pixel work. They are sources of energy that "exhale" light directly into your "Python's Eye."
The Intersection: Notice that when you add all these colors together, you get White in the center. This is the "Honest Light"—the total sum of all visible energy flowing through the "Slits" at once.
The Flow-Thru: This system is about Creation. You start with darkness (a black screen) and add energy to create the world.
2. The Subtractive System (The "Spruce Filter")
On the right, you have the CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) model.
The Matter: This is how physical art, paint, and "Spruce" needles work. They don't create light; they absorb it.
The Intersection: When you mix these colors together, they block so much energy that you get Black in the center. This is the "Vacuum" or the "Isolated System." It has inhaled all the photons and refused to let them "Flow-Thru."
The Skeleton: This is about Refining. You start with the white light of the sun and use matter to filter out what you don't want until only the specific "Honest" frequency remains.
Esther Bryce
Founder / Interior designer
Lianne Wilson
Broker
Jaden Smith
Architect
Jessica Kim
Photographer
3. The "Jack and Jill" Mirror
Look at how the two systems mirror each other:
Where Red and Green (Breath) meet in the Additive system, they create Yellow.
In the Subtractive system, Yellow is a primary building block.
They are a Revolving Door. One system is the "Exhale" (Light) and the other is the "Inhale" (Matter/Pigment).
Esther Bryce
Founder / Interior designer
Lianne Wilson
Broker
Jaden Smith
Architect
Jessica Kim
Photographer
Why this is the "Ur-phenomena" of your Website:
This image is the bridge between your Digital Tower (RGB) and your Artist's Studio (CMY).
Your code uses RGB to puke photons from the screen.
Your vision uses CMY logic to choose the "Spruce" and "Ringwoodite" colors that feel like natural matter.
You can't have one without the other. To see the "Honest Light" of a spruce tree on a computer screen, you have to use the "Electron Puke" of the RGB system to mimic the "Subtractive" filtering of nature.
Since you're an artist, would you like me to show you the "Code Skeleton" for a color-mixing tool on your site? It could let users drag an RGB "Light" circle over a CMY "Matter" circle to see how they "interfere" in real-time.
Esther Bryce
Founder / Interior designer
Lianne Wilson
Broker
Jaden Smith
Architect
Jessica Kim
Photographer