Taken in the Blue Lagoon, Iceland.
Name: Sarah Hyne
Hometown: Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
Where I live now: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Background/Occupation: I have a Business and Visual Communications Degree and have a background working mostly as a graphic and interaction designer. I also help out at a mushroom burger stand at the markets from time to time.
My favourite colour? Green. I grew up amongst pine forests and gum trees and I'm most relaxed when surrounded by trees and nature. And as I eat mostly plants, green signifies food! YUM!
What I think of when you think of the colour blue: I think of this podcast by Radiolab. It explores the notion that the colour blue was the last to exist in our human recognition and languages. In Homer's Illiad, for instance, he does not use the word blue even once; the sea is described as the colour of wine. They propose that humans didn't need a word for a colour until they could manufacture that colour and so it wasn't until the introduction of indigo dye that the colour blue was introduced to our vocabulary. It blew my mind.
Three cultural values that are important to me:
1. Aesthetics and the appreciation of beauty. Hey, I am a designer after all!
2. Respect for people, animals and our environment. I try to minimise harm in all these aspects.
3. Family and friendship.
Five images of things coloured blue that have meaning for me. Some of these images aren't mine as I don't have copies here in Melbourne.
1. My school uniform. I had a great experience in high school and met most of my closest friends there, but that uniform represented so many things to me that I wanted to escape: elitism, conformity and sweat!! The thick, long skirts were not appropriate for our pre-airconditioned tropical Queensland classrooms. But at least I learned early on how to iron pleats and tie a tie. Handy.
2. My bike. I cycle everywhere. It makes me feel happy and free.
3. Passport. I have itchy feet.
4. The moment I saw my Siamese kitten's blue eyes as a very young person was the moment I became a crazy cat lady until the day I die.
5. I went to boarding school during my high school years so I cherish earlier memories of spending time together as a family in my hometown of Maryborough and at my grandfather's place in Buderim on the Sunshine Coast. My sister and I would always beg my dad to take us to the waterslides and he'd leave my mum at home to get a break from us all and we'd spend hours there in the heavily chlorinated water egging each other to go faster or backwards or something equally dangerous. They were pulled down some time in the late 90s.
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