Your Taste in Color is Not Your Own
Read on to discover how the marginalization of color has led to collective chromophobia. Yup, that's what I'm telling you.
In a world awash in news we wish were not happening, it’s a welcome reprieve to step aside from the things we cannot control to take a deep dive into someone else’s rich intellectual obsession.
I read with extreme delight the essay by Carolyn Purnell in the Summer 2023 issue of The University of Chicago magazine. Check it out:
https://mag.uchicago.edu/university-news/monochromatic-blues
I ruin nothing by providing a snippet of text which is easily my favorite sentence of this year 2023:
Given that color preferences lie at a complex juncture between personal preference, cultural symbolism, collective psychology, historical developments, and economic imperatives, it’s unsurprising that many people have an ambivalent relationship with color.
Gnaw on that awhile.