TruValU.com
Tru ValU is an investigation of beauty and the 216 web safe color palette. The site responds to visitor selection by displaying color relationships based on mathematical determinates, and counts the number of 'hits' to each selection.

I am thinking about containment and control... the systems and codification of beauty, and how these are sanctioned and internalized in larger social constructs. I am thinking about centralities, the randomness of designations, and the reduction of our global palette to 216 'safe' elements. I am thinking about the need/desire/propensity and willingness to count, and the values we place on numbers however arbitrary their assignments/connections to things meaningful in our lives. I am thinking about the expansion of simple mathematical concepts into metaphors both hidden and inherent in information technologies and the implications thereof. I am thinking about individuality, plurality and the singularity of the moment. I am thinking about what is important, what is not, and how we determine what is meaningful, valuable and relevant in our lives.
Nanette Wylde