Between Pink and Green
For the second part of her artist’s book series Apophenia, Julie Wolfe invited me to write about colour. I know her from my time at Knust, so I am especially familiar with her riso prints. From the beginning, I was drawn to her use of green and pink, and to the way these colours return and meet each other again and again.
I chose to write about them. What followed surprised me: the colours began to speak, to whisper, to look at one another. Slowly, a love correspondence unfolded between green and pink.
“The color that people can see best and in the greatest variety is you, Green. Both during the day and at night, they see the green hues as more glorious than any other color. You are also the color that has been given the most names, greens with incomparable characteristics such as teal or olive and turquoise or lime.
You bring a vivid reality that I can only dream of. Because it is precisely that last word, dream, that people often think of when they think of me: dreams, fantasy, too good to be true. You are the real thing, I’m the unreal.
But you see me for who I am. And for that I am eternally grateful to you,
Your blushing Pink”
Visual and Text essay
Julie Wolfe, together with the graphic designer, has transformed her art works and the love letters into a powerful visual and textual essay. The energy between this pair bursts from the pages; it is a true pleasure to read.
Thank you, dear Julie. I am deeply happy with this collaboration — with the care you have given to the material, and with how beautifully the book has come together as a whole.
Order a copy here, via Idea Books. You can read more about this project here.