![]() ![]() To see what I mean, find the section where Finlay describes the interesting practice of boiling cow urine after the bovine have been fed a steady diet of mango leaves for two weeks straight. There is a fair amount of humor in Color. ![]() On the heels of reading Travels in a Thin Country I couldn't stop comparing Sara Wheeler's adventure to that of Victoria Finlay. She took the time to travel the globe looking for answers about color: Australia for ochre, England for black and brown, China for white, Chile for red, Italy for orange, India for yellow.I wanted to make a map of all her travels. How about the origin of the phrase, "cut through all this red tape"? Who knew? Apparently, Finlay. Did you ever wonder what the HB on a pencil meant? Hardness and blackness. ![]() I did not know that and to be totally honest, nor have I ever thought about ochre in this way. Who, for example, has thought about from where ochre originated? According to Finlay, ochre is the first color(s) of paint. To research the history of color is brilliant like a box of sixty-four. ![]()
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