# Community, Interconnection and Color Theory ![[000 interconnected.jpg]] I never got to see this project through to its completion. This was intended for a magazine cover about community engagement. The editorial director spoke of the magazine issue being about community, about how one depends on another, support one another, and something else can be built upon that foundation. I had interpreted the editorial director’s description as interconnection, and asked myself how do we show interconnection? I could show nodes connecting to one another, creating a network or a web. I could represent it as links in a chain. But I found both ideas problematic. A network is too obvious, and I didn’t like the symbolism of chains. What I did instead was move laterally: interconnection, for me, was a synonym of interdependence. So now, I thought about what dependence meant. What I landed on was color theory. Oranges cannot exist without reds and yellows. There are thousands of dots. They represent people, ideas, programs, dreams, hopes, futures, realities. They swirl together, taking shape, dissolving into one another, forming and unforming. This is what I was exploring. This idea was never used, but I think of it sometimes.