ughhh dude your divine wounds are leaking everywhere again... oh come on bro not on the couch i thought i told you no stigmata in the house
And when we fell together, all our flesh was like a veil that I had to draw aside to see the serpent eat its tail
sam + “last year’s man” for @seasononesam ’s sam celebration
The Collected Poems, ‘Poem for a Birthday’ by Sylvia Plath
[ID: Eaten or Rotten. I am all mouth.]
Articles:
10 ways to look at the colour black
The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colours names, and it messed with our brains part I II
Seeing Cerise: Defining Colours in Webster’s Third
The Rich and Royal History of Purple
Colour or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”
How Beets Became Beet-red
How Colour Shapes Our Lives
In defense of the world's ugliest colour, "Opaque Couché"
A Brief History Of Ultramarine: The World's Costliest Colour
The Histories of 10 colours through multiple lenses
From Gemstones to Arsenic: How Development of Pigment Colored Art
A Collection of 3000 pigments made from cow urine, shells and insects and more
The Red of Painters
The Secret Literary History of Some Of Your Favourite Colours
Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion
A series on history of some common colours
A series on history of uncommon colours
Some more columns on unusual colours
Further reading:
The Theory of Colour, Goethe
The Secret Language Of Colours, Joann & Arielle Ekstut
Interaction of Color, Josef Albers
The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair
Werner's nomenclature of colours
Blue: The History of a Colour, Michel Pastoureau
The Primary Colours: Three Essays, Alexander Theroux
The Perfect Red, Amy Butler
The Brilliant History of Color In Art & Colour: Travel Through The Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
On Color, David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing