Synaesthesia: My life in living colour | Cloudia Vardon | TEDxBrixton

Cloudia takes us on a fascinating journey inside synaesthesia. She feels colour, tastes patterns and her first language is visualisation. Through Cloudia’s kaleidoscope – the world looks, feels and works differently. Living with the condition has inspired Cloudia to create textile prints that illustrate how people with colour-blindness see the world.

Cloudia Vardon is a designer and visual merchandiser. A true Afropolitan, Cloudia’s Ghanaian, Lebanese and English heritage have woven themselves deep into her work and allows her to bring a fresh and unique perspective to her design. Cloudia has synaesthesia – a neurological condition which produces a criss-crossing of the senses.

[Eric-bptc]

She's awesome! Her experience of life is so rich and exciting

[jonathanmckinney]

I really like the taste of her voice. It's kind of like lemon juice in water.

[sillabaez]

When I hear songs I see textures of sediments or visualizations of something I’ve never seen in person before each time I hear that song.

[fienevandijk]

I think I might have grapheme/weekday/month> color synesthesia. I've been trying to use it to learn digits of pi. I already knew 60. Now I know around 120. I've also made some drawings of pi, based on the color and vague shape of the numbers. I don't know whether I have synesthesia, or whether I'm just a very visually imaginative person

[BenjaminPenniman]

I will only see certain colors not all and it's related to numbers concepts math time. And the colored numbers are always inside a geometric shape, often a shape that doesn't fit into any category. And the numbers are always moving across the shape, never still. I can also feel the shapes on my body while listening to certain music.

[rodentia]

I think have grapheme> color, I just see colors with letters and numbers, they don’t have personalities or positions like hers though

[gorillachillaboom]

Come and listen to some of my records anytime you like Cloudia 😊
We could stir all the senses