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A Soul Captured in Light: The Legacy of Syndey Byrd To understand the work of Syndey Byrd is to understand the very heartbeat of New Orleans. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1944, Byrd did not merely observe the Crescent City; she became its visual biographer, …
A portrait built from syndey byrd's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
