Similar but Different #15: Ladies aren’t Ladies without Pink

I like pink because it is bubble gum and blisters. It is the color of innocence. I also like pink because it’s a dirty white tinged with flesh or blood. This pink is anything but innocent.

Maybe it’s the sudden rush of Spring or the immense amounts of pollen in the air but I seem to be daydreaming about the color pink a lot lately. I’m thinking in images and not too confident with my words. So until the words return let me present Similar but Different #15: Ladies aren’t Ladies without Pink. Like daydreaming this post will take time so find yourself a moment on a grassy sunlit knoll and come be with me “in the pink”.

http://vimeo.com/1672991

Looking at this video made me think of this and then…

which lead to me watching this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7IjXu0DfQ

 

followed by humming this, while thinking about that, this, this and that!

http://youtu.be/2duFNff_ArY

 

and finally brought back fond memories of she…

If you’d like to bring this blog back to the written word and look at a few more images while you are at it, then I suggest you get a copy of this:

Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art

A book featuring works by over fifty international artists, as well as numerous everyday objects and essays that ruminate over all things pink.