{"id":2944,"date":"2022-12-10T23:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T23:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2022-12-10T23:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T23:59:22","slug":"viva-my-magenta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"Viva My Magenta!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pantone’s 2023 Viva Magenta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Magenta?\u00a0 I swoon, no matter how much naysayers insist I should pay attention to the end of the world.\u00a0 Pantone may have anointed Viva Magenta the color of 2023, but I\u2019ve been living in that color since the cusp of adolescence.\u00a0 In a series of evolving poems, I\u2019m exploring the how, what, why of colors.\u00a0 Here, from childhood memory, are some lines with jolts of pure precision about self-construction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

streams of plastic beads in orange and pink
over my childhood window,
wall of color, and what of the palette I made of my skin,
vocabulary of my first identity
a bolder version of girl that I envisioned<\/p>\n\n\n\n

black-haired, black-eyed, skin olivy (my mother
called it green) 
Picasso glazed a green girl before a mirror
Manet working magic with black 
I did magic with magenta, painting a hot-pink babe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same poem includes a royal sighting: an image of the way colors erupt and disrupt with their beauty.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stunning, that man stepping from the commuter train cutting a cool
diagonal across the macadam \u2014
his skin deep and black, his baseball cap magenta
vibrant, shivery, majesty shielded by his own boldness turning his palette into talisman
daring pink to blush and daring pale to scatter
‘pretty\u2019 to man up in Red Sox country, to visionary 
himself a living painting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magenta?\u00a0 I swoon, no matter how much naysayers insist I should pay attention to the end of the world.\u00a0 Pantone may have anointed Viva Magenta the color of 2023, but I\u2019ve been living in that color since the cusp of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1235],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-viva-magenta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Lu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}