Body Language

Body Language
Our body works all the time, even at night, when we sleep: the heart beats and pumps blood to all parts of the body, the lungs fill with air and empty, and there are many other systems in the body that work nonstop so that we feel well. These actions produce heat, which is known as "body heat."

Although color is seen with the eyes, and not felt with the hands, red is often called a "warm color" and blue is described as a "cold color." In fact, colors affect our body, our pulse, and our heat: when we are in a red environment, the pulse is faster and the body heats up; cold colors calm us down.

Panels painted in shades of red and blue hang along the wall. They were painted with a special paint sensitive to heat, which disappears in contact with the skin. Try touching the panels and see how your body heat affects the paint.

Design
Lilach Chitayat
1970, Jerusalem