Angèle Jaspers: Inventory of a 4-color person

This publication counts as item 1 out of ten items that together form the project “549. In everything I do lately, I feel that I am being tested. (true/false)”.

The project is a reaction to the phenomenon of psychological testing. Psychological tests are expressions of a deeply human urge to categorize and classify a world that inevitably resists such efforts. In their attempt to separate order from dis-order— obsessively, almost—, the psychologist may, in fact, not be so far removed from the designer— or the madman.

Shifting roles between tester, tested subject and designer, the project aims to explore the visual, textual and behavioral languages through which the troubled or ‘abnormal’ mind is required to speak its truth to the psychologist.

This publication/item presents a reaction to Max Lüchser’s theory of personality based on the 4 basic colors. Instead of following a preconceived model of what the colors mean in terms of personality theory, this publication came about by investigating the occurrence of color terms in my own chat history. By collecting and reordering phrases that I have sent or received through chat between 2018 and 2025, alternative links between color and self rise to the surface.