Deconstructing Thought Forms: The Colours

Bachelor degree project, Konstfack 2021


Risoprinted in edithion of 20, 2021

One in s series of three books deconstructing the content to make the idéas in the book Thought Forms (1905) accesible to todays readers. Thought Forms is written by the theosophists Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater which idéas about form and colour inspirer early abstract paintings such as Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky.

This book presents the idéas of colours and its meanings acording to Thought Forms. The book consists of gradiens with the colours described for different thughts and feeling in Thought Forms.

Read more about the project on Konstfack´s website.
Awarded with  Svensk Bokkonst 2021.







Most photos taken by Alva Nylander