Colour pigment origin maps! Finally someone can describe my crush better than I. “My heart started beating, and I had a bizarre sensation that was rather like being in love.” -Victoria Finlay ‘Colour, a Natural History of the Pallette’ Which sounds like a book for wankers but… “It was a naive Garden of Eden moment, and of course I forgot about the rainbow serpent that had to be there in order to make it a real paradise. In the historical and chemical paibtbox I have found more corruption, poisonings, wars and politics than even the Medicis could have appreciated. Killer wallpapers, capital punishment for people using the wrong dyes, and beautiful blue stones which murder the lungs of those who find them…” and so on.‏

I’m not sure if I like the way she writes yet. But I certainly wish this was my job.