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Over the years, I collected students' discarded color wheels. I started to re-imagine what other stories these seemingly disposable exercises might have to offer. For first-time painters, the color wheel exercise is an alchemic play where undeniable magic occurs in the mixing of colors. In class, I was always surprised by how truly diverse the outcomes were for this activity. Some wheels were more oval than circular, and each color's space varied significantly. Personality also came through in the colors. Some greens presented themselves as saturated pieces of sour apple candy, while others evoked feelings of a dying lawn. The application of paint provided even more individuality. Some students' colors were painted so perfectly between the lines you would have thought they had been computer-generated, while others flooded out of bounds, providing a texture to the dried work. After working on color wheels, students moved on to painting landscapes with sticks and then to painting abstract forces of nature on dried leaves we collected outside the school. With each project, more diverse and defined visual voices emerged.