![]() ![]() On December 6th 2016, I met Van Morrison outside a vintage bookshop called ‘No Alibis’ in Belfast. I used to dream of something like that happening when I was just a kid with my art book in school, and now it’s a reality. JC: Incredible musicians own my artwork now, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Lionel Richie, Nile Rodgers, Jack Garratt, Mark Ronson, Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons) and it’s just insane. ![]() Harsh sounds resonate harsh color visualizations, whilst faded sounds resonate faded color visualizations. It all depends on the specific type of sounds my ears pick up. The formations of color can be incredibly rapid, or sometimes very graceful. The sound of the raindrops on my window, they stimulate crystallized holographic pulsations. Visually dominant formations of color literally surround me in the dream, it’s very beautiful. It happens on the nights of heavy rainfall or downpour. I also had a recurring dream as a child, which I still have to this day. I felt a strange serenity overtake me, it was an incredibly enticing experience to have as a child. One of my other definitive early synesthesia experiences was at one of my aunt Christine’s exhibitions as a child where I could 'hear' her paintings. The visualization of my heartbeat is like an infrared radiation glow cast from a black light. Even as a little child with no sense of the world, that first synesthetic memory has stayed with me throughout my life, and still happens daily in times of quiet. That’s when I knew something extremely weird and magical was happening. JC: When I was a child, I remember being in my room when it was dead silent, and the sound of my own heartbeat showed pulsating colors in front of me at each beat. TV: How did you first learn you experience sound and colors different from some other people? That’s similar to what it’s like except with different colors, shapes and things constantly changing color. I don’t advise doing this, yet it’s similar to when you look into the sun for a few seconds, then look away and you see the yellow shape of the sun on everything you see. It depends what I hear and how I feel in a specific moment. ![]() That’s what scares me about it, as I feel I’m the only one experiencing the world the way I do - I feel that my purpose is to share this kaleidoscope world of mine. ![]() It’s wildly different to other people who have told me about their experiences mine is a mixture of synesthesia and tetrachromacy rolled into one. I have to take photographs of things and ask people around me if something is actually the color that I’m seeing, because colors to me are ever changing. JC: It’s honestly like someone is playing around with the colors of my life on Photoshop. Then in my basic day to day living, even without hearing any stimulating sound, colors of the world change rapidly. It’s weird, my ears pick up sounds I wouldn’t even notice, no matter how slight. In terms of music and everyday sound, colors burn and change in front of me on everything I see in response to what I hear. So I’ve drawn equitable comparisons for people without synesthesia to have an idea of its complexities. Jack Coulter: It’s quite difficult trying to articulate my synesthesia to people and the public, and I’ve used quite intense language in the past trying to explain seeing the world through my eyes. Teen Vogue: Can you explain how it feels to experience your form of synesthesia? ![]()
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