WTF? What is it with the names of paints these days? Oh, holy crap…
Here’s the thing… the temporary, part-time job thingie? Now a temporary full-time job. All sorts of stuff to get this Humanities exhibit out on time. In addition to generating the packing lists, which I was hired on to do, I am now working on finishing up the linings of the crates AND painting the panels of this “Farm Life” exhibit. Of course, no one will ever conceive of or execute a concept as brilliant or as flawless as myself. Duh… But it will be a sharp exhibit when complete.
But this whole fuckin’ color thing. Eight colors are divided up into four basic parts of the display, roughly two per section. I suspect that the designer picked the colors more for the names than the colors… ya know, sounding all farm-ghetto and shit… Hidden Meadow, Quaking Grass, Rattan, Sugar Maple (which should REALLY be red maple, cause I don’t think sugar maples are red at all unless they are dying for the winter…) Toasted Almond, Oyster Shell (Okay not quite a farmish name, unless you are farming shellfish in the Carolinas…). So on and on…
As frickin’ gay as these names are… (gay as in a 13 yo straight boy sayin’ it, not so much boasting for our side.) none of them really jive with the color. Toasted Almond is much more blanched almonds without the skin. Rattan is a nasty, watery baby shite brownish yellow (yeah, that weird mustard color) Quaking Grass (Whatever-the-fuck color grass turns when quaking…) is like Martha Stewart green (that kinda wussy, not-quite-celery, not-quite-celedon, not-quite-chartreuse kinda green). And – AND – the only paint that actually IS a Martha paint is the sugar maple, which is just a barn red… I think for the Farm exhibit they should refer to the colors as brown mud, grey mud, dark grey mud, red mud, and light mud… oh yeah, and the shitty-kinda-green-diarrhea mud.
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