The World According to Matt Mullican

Around 1980, Matt Mullican began visually elaborating a cosmology of his own invention, for which he divided reality into five color-coded orders of being. The lowest order in the hierarchy, given the color green, was the elemental, material base of existence. This was followed by the domains of everyday life (blue); culture and science (yellow); language and representation (black and white); and subjectivity (red). To each of these he assigned a different pictographic symbol reminiscent of the