Even a slight touch of color on a black field can have explosive impact. Here, the soap becomes the visual equivalent of a cosmic black hole by overpowering the space around it. Unlike the black hole, it does so with subtle elegance.
Color may come in the form of something small and changeable: A tray, a throw, an accented base board, or a vase.
In a field of color its absence creates impact.
Contrasts: Color, surface elevations, hard and soft, solid and liquid, organic and ordered.
Light, as a source or in reflection, can also accomplish extraordinary things.
In a jungle of off-whites and subdued tones, fuchsia petals dominate.
Texture with color also creates a compelling accent. (No less than the red liquid in the bottle.)
A suggestion of red over the window, the pale green of the bench, and the tinge of yellow in the candles all add a dynamic to the dark stone.
Orange against textured green foliage = A comfortable tension.
