'The Unsent Project' By Rora Blue

What color is love? Rora Blue, an artist, has many fascinating pieces of work; but the most famous project may have confirmed what color people imagine love to be. Almost two years ago, Blue started a project called “The Unsent Project”. The artist created an archive for people to submit texts they’d like to send to their first love. In addition to writing what they feel, people pick a color they associate with their first love. The colors people can choose for their texts range from white to black, Image result for unsent projectlight pinks to deep reds, and about any other color imaginable. “In August of 2015 I invited people to submit the texts they never sent to their first love including the color their first love makes them think of. I wanted to find out what color people see love in. Over a year later with over 30,000 submissions I feel that I am beginning to answer …show more content…
Love is blue. Out of 19,138 submissions, shades of blue were the colors used the most of all: 4,603 times to be exact. Light blue has more submissions than brown, purple, orange, green, light pink, and light orange combined! (Blue) These findings have provided the artist with many questions: Why is there such a huge disparity between the number of different colors? Why does Light Blue have more submissions than Brown, Orange, Green, Purple, Light Pink, Light Orange COMBINED? Why do most people associate their first love with a hue of the color Blue? Do people see love in different colors around the world? Hopefully one day all her questions will be answered, but maybe the color blue is the root to all of them. When positive, psychologically, blue is associated with; Intelligence, communication,