Is an object only, the characteristics that make it up, creating the object? Or, is the object itself, a pendelum on which the characters stand. Is the object apart of everything that makes it up, or is it solely the things to sum to it?

Is an Oak tree, the leaves, bark, branches, and roots that add up to make it, or is the tree itself also a part of the group?

This could be closely related with colour, when you look at something that's blue, you see all the colours except for that particular color. A visible colour is the absence of that colour, right?

So, is an object like colour? Not in the sence of absence, but, in the sense that only everything that makes it up, is what it is? Or, is the object itself, a piece in which its characters stand?