Ellen Jakobsson

I have examined The Ugliest Colour in the World, Pantone 448 C.
I think it’s rather pretty, but that isn’t important.
It’s also not important what you think of it. It has been voted, by very many people, a really ugly colour.
That’s why we are deciding
right now,
that it is ugly.
I have examined what The Ugliest Colour in the World can give me and what I can get out
of a single can of paint,
an exploration that so far seems infinite.
I’ve attacked The Ugliest Colour in the World with a number of different techniques,
combined it with a great number of different materials,
and created a library with building blocks consisting of hundreds of little experiments and samples.

From the building blocks I have constructed a room,
in which the viewer can experience One (1) infinity, of The Ugliest Colour in the World (my infinity)
through experiments in both finished and unfinished form.
A representation of both work and workshop.