New directions - from feedback.

So feedback from my designs would be to look at what the rainbow symbol is and what it portrays. Used commonly by Pride and the LGBT community. The design was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 and originally it had eight colour - all with each meanings.

Hot Pink - Sex

Red - Life

Orange - Healing

Yellow - Sunlight

Green - Nature

Turquoise - Art

Indigo - Harmony

Violet - Spirit

The rainbow is also a symbol of hope - as in the Christian beliefs the rainbow appeared after the great flood, a sign of hope to Noah and his family.

Rainbows are a symbol of hope in many cultures. They appear as perfect arcs and are frequently represented in Western art and culture, as a sign of hope and promise of better times to come.

However, the hope expressed in a rainbow is frequently tinged with pathos. According to Irish legend, the end of a rainbow marks where leprechauns have buried a pot of the gold they stole from the Vikings. But since you can only see a rainbow if you are far away from it, and they appear to move as you move, the promise remains elusive.

Somewhere over the rainbow, “dreams come true” and “troubles melt like lemon drops”, as Judy Garland sang in the Wizard of Oz musical. But this magical place is unattainable.

While some cultures marvel at and worship rainbows, others fear them. Some Meso American societies believe they are bad omens and hide their children away when they see them; the Karens of Burma believe it is a dangerous demon that eats children; whereas Bulgarian legend has it that walking under a rainbow causes someone to change genders.

Now, as schools, playgrounds and museums fall empty, the world’s children are using a rainbow symbol to remind us all they are here, hidden away but hopeful.

Gabriel Dawes rainbow projections are incredible. His massive structures are created buy joining corners and space up with miles of rainbow coloured sewing thread. Each structure can contain up to 40-60 miles of cotton, which he painstackingly sews using a large extended needle pole device.

His obsessiveness, patience and eye for detail creates beautiful geometric structures that change and you walk under and around them.

This image could be an idea of how to make the rainbows look like they are being pushed out of a small opening.

Other artists that also use colour and rainbows I researched were Marcus Linnebrink who uses dripping colour and experiments with the behaviour of materials, Liz West, who uses reflection to capture multi coloured objects and Megan Geckler who covers and wraps objects and spaces with rainbow coloured flagging tape.

I also managed to listen to the rainbow, a piece that was created by Sophie Kirkham who used a synesthetic Sonification system to listen to the sounds that different colours make and created a rainbow soundtrack.

I've looked at prisms and the bending of light but I feel that this takes away the actual reason of the rainbows in the windows, a mask to what could be happening inside a home.