a color story: purple space

JRNYCLUB planet 300K XOLO contest. Last day submission.  Always fun creating original content the day a contest ends. The contest was simple; create something related to their gaming platform. I wanted to create music for the submission under a space theme. Looking at their website, the game designers complimented their space theme with black and purple colors.

Why was purple a recurring color with space?

Space was black due to absence of light. Up in the sky, pitch black. The void suited the black ambiance. 

But, there were other planets out there. Other galaxies out there. Possibly, other life forms out there. 

The most relevant imagery of purple in space was Dormammu, Doctor Strange's final boss in the first movie. Dormammu was a primordial inter-dimensional entity. This villain contained infinite power except for time. The hero defeated "it" by containing it with a time loop and repelled the villain to coming back to earth. Doctor Strange and Dormammu had their battle in the "Dark Dimension", a void within the Multiverse, namely the space between universes.  As I searched him up, his eyes were purple. 

My current phone Samsung Galaxy also applied purple colors in its background which suited the name "galaxy". I didn't understood the concept back then. Samsung redefined (or rebranded) the phone not as a device or a tool. But, the galaxy phone was a metaphor for a place to explore via internet, apps, etc. 

But, these other purple applications didn't quite answer the color question. 

Why purple? 

I dug deeper into my search. I lost myself in the "rabbit hole" or universe within topic of space. NASA. Space.com. Purple nebulas. Ultraviolet rays. But, I spotted a graph that every middle school student studied back in physics. A light spectrum appeared in my feed. 

The longest visible waves for the human eye were purple in the light spectrum. Ultraviolet waves (longer waves than purple) existed but invisible to our eyes. 380 nm is where our start to recognize a color out of "nothing".  

Purple was the first color we see out of the black void; the color symbolized a discovery from "nothing".

I misunderstood the color. Space was clearly empty to me. 

JRNYCLUB XOLO  game. Finished the music. Use cellos to carry a certain weighty ambiance. Layered tracks within the same melody but different techniques. One contained arpeggiated notes within the chord progression. One carried a reverbed version of the same progression. And the third track plucked every other note like a wave.

The video complimenting the music committed to a purple placeholder NFT aesthetic. One shade of purple every 3 seconds. Of course, I started with heavier darker hues of purple to set the tone of space's ambiance. As the music progressed, light shades appeared. Then, the shade would loop back to darker purples. I designed it so because space's real appeal was the exploration of the void. Brighter colors at the end suggested otherwise.