An ode to color .

a collage of images with a common theme of red color pops, such as red yarn, red pj's on a young child, a red balloon, a red rug, a red bathing suit on a woman

I am obsessed with the yellow tile in our upstairs bathroom and also the green floral wallpaper in our downstairs bathroom.

 

And my house is filled with antique red rugs.

 

We have a blue velvet sofa and a bright orange clock and dining room painted dark blue.

 

I spent far too much of the kitchen renovation budget on a green gas stove.

 

All the rooms have linen duvets and sheets- dark moss, mustard, sage and a dusky coral.

 

Each morning I choose a mug- is today a day for emerald or deep warm brown or red that leans orange? I can't tell you the joy that a dishwasher full of colors brings me.

A collage of images whose common theme is an overlap of orange tones, including rusty orange dresses on women, rusty orange hair, oranges on a table, a ginger colored beard

I fought with Arlo in the dentist waiting room last week- he said the walls were pink. I begged him to see that the mauve leaned more purple. 

 

Every day I wear a giant  turquoise ring on my left hand or one hand and a lapis ring on the right.

 

I love azalea season most of all and the way that in the afternoons the light hits my yard and bounces into my bedroom and turns everything pink.

This summer I ordered myself an aubergine bathing suit and I've become fond of big, brightly colored flatform sandals. 

 

I have a drawer full of bras in various states of disrepair in every shade of the rainbow. And for the last ten years I've been wearing a red, purple and yellow nearly every winter day which I was delighted to discover is the same coat Marilyn wore all six seasons of Northern Exposure. 

 

Colorful underwear. Colorful outerwear. I'm into it all.

Collection of images with green color tones, including wallpaper, water, clothing, planter, a painted screen door.

I think about color a lot because I love color a lot.

These days I keep coming back to William Eggleston's work and thinking about how I want color to play a bigger role in my photos next year. 

Collage of blue toned images, with blues from the sky, from a blanket, from denim and clothing

 

Because it seems challenging and I want to get better at my craft.

 

Because it seems fun and I want to play.

I want to make pictures that celebrate acidy yellows and the softest lavenders.

 

I want to honor the big, blue sky and the pink that mountains turn before sunset.

 

I want pictures of tables filled with gorgeous green salads and corn on the cob and berries of every shade.

 

I want the red number five dripping from faces sticky from popsicles.

 

I want baby blue nail polish and your favorite lipstick and every flower that Trader Joe's has to offer.

Collage of images with shades of pink connecting all them - pink florals, doors, walls, watermelon, skies.
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