Whiteness.

White has been used as a symbol of purity, serenity, space, and flatness. This can be seen in the Egyptian references of Gods, African Kingdoms, Catholic churches, and most popularly Greek art. While some Classical art had originally been painted, these realistic and beautiful statues are known for their whiteness, which Bird claims help to create a slight disconnect between the viewer and the content. Minimalist art also uses the absence of color to free it from representation in geometric, abstract ways.

I have used whiteness in my work as a sense of purity. To me, it represents an emptiness that is calming when it is interpreted as untouched by metaphorical filth. It is interesting to take that it in reverse, and say that whiteness could be an emptiness that is not calming, but uncomfortable, lonely, isolated, and baren. In fact for my list of 50 ideas I had mentioned a reference to a quote, "That's where the colors don't go" as a representation of a lifeless environment. Could I work with an overwhelming use of white to show environments, scenes, or places that make me personally feel uncomfortable, and abandoned? Other project ideas include:

• Intentionally overexposing photographs so that the whiteness is added to the image in which the object or figure is enclosed by it. 
• Working with glass and white light to create a visible color spectrum in certain areas.
• Painting a still life of just plain white objects with colored lights on them, to see how they absorb and reflect the color slightly. 
• Getting all of the different house paint sample cards of "White" from a home improvement store and having students mix all of the different variations of white. 
• Base a project off of Eric Sweet's work of internally lit low relief works where the paper shows an indention of a mark without any pigment on the surface, and is only visible with the correct conditions.