Chasing Color

Color seems like a simple thing, right? A color is a color. Kids know what blue is. Blue is always blue. There's something very concrete about color. Until it isn't. As a little kid I learned that color is complex. First through paint, mixed with my fingers, where yellow and green made mucky brown. Then Playdoh taught me that yellow and blue didn't make green... but more of a vomit color. This was…