by Prince of Light » Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:10 pm
Owner: colossalConquistador
Equid name: Dorthea (named after Dorthea Dix, a nurse who improved the treatment of the mentally ill in the US and Europe)
Age: 4
Gender: female
Height: 13.2hh
Black: The color black is mostly associated with death and mourning, and is often worn to funerals in Western Culture. This color can also represent evil, negativity, darkness and unhappiness in many other cultures around the world. The black here could also symbolize the scars left on the left behind loved ones, or even the implication of the death being malicious, intentional, be it a suicide or homicide.
White: In Eastern cultures, white is a color that installs sadness into individuals. White is usually associated with purity and cleanliness, but it can also represent death, mourning and funerals. In some cases, white was actually the color to don to funerals. However, that has changed to black in the ideals of Western culture. In this case, the white would also represent the vast emptiness of non-living, the lack of life.
Blue: Blue is a color that can install trouble, defeat, depression and mourning emotions into individuals. The use of blue in these examples can be found in cultures like Western, Korean, Mexican, and Cherokees. Here, blue can be found and applied to visually imply how death might have taken place. The distress of the way of death, be it un-natural.
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