LOVE Color - In All things

I love color.  Soft color, vibrant color, blended colors and colors with depth.  I stated before that a white wall is a blank canvas to me, not an end choice but the beginning of a creative endeavor.  
I love color and diversity.  I don't use color in traditional combinations and most times I get stuck on a certain color palette for a season and then something will spark my interest and it will all change.  I am influenced by culture, architecture, historical periods and everything in between.  
Now imagine that all of that disappeared.  Imagine traveling anywhere in the world and everything looked the same.  Imagine a world with no diversity, no individual character, no surprises and everything the same color.  
I love all colors whether red, yellow, brown, black, white or any other color. I love the vibrant large circle skirts of Mexico, the bold charismatic dancing and the loud celebrations.  I love the hand printed fabrics of India, the soft wraps of the fabrics with long flowing skirts.  I love the intricacy of the carvings, prints and design in Japanese wood, clothing and gifts and the absolutely simple lines of their homes.  I love the intense design that goes into the architecture of Russia and the simple flow of Scandinavian design.  All these designs, color pallets and means of expression are distinctive characteristics of the culture these artist come from.  We can't lose that.
It seems to me that one of the reasons we are so depressed as a people, so angry, so frustrated and so anxious is that someone, somewhere has decided we should all be the same.  "They" have decided how we should look, act, live and structure our lives and we don't like it.  We have lost ourselves, our sense of culture and our sense of belonging.  
I am Nordic and Scottish, we are a loud, pushy, clannish bunch but you will never find one more loyal or hard working.  We are proud of who we are and where we come from and we don't want to loose our traditions, our culture or our heritage.  I think everyone feels the same.  
Even beyond that....we want to be individual, meaning that we want to choose our color pallet, we want to choose our work, our family, our community and how we live in those choices.  We have so many restrictions and expectations placed on us but even more so on our children.  We lay out an agenda and pathway that we expect everyone to follow because we have been told that is the only path to success, living well and being a "good" citizen.  We tell everyone NOT to listen to the inner song, ignore the inner color and beauty and just follow the crowd.....and we slowly fade until there is nothing left of us.
There is a song, a creative expression, a love of color, a dance, a joyful existence in each of us but it has been whitewashed and silenced.  Until we embrace color and diversity and choice and creativity and FUN, we will continue to be angry, anxious, frustrated and depressed.
I cannot imagine a world without tribal drums, Mariachi bands, bagpipes, big swirling skirts, vibrant color, huge headdresses, and diverse culture.  Can you?  We as individuals from diverse cultures make up this world.  We cannot let globalization destroy our individual cultures, our heritage and our ancestral history....no matter what country or region we are from.
I check in everyday with Collective Evolution and they posted a thought provoking, award winning video that gives vision to this.  Thank you for what you do CE and if you get a chance follow their site and support their work.  
​