January in colour
Mapping life and sending over your (earned) badge of January
Congratulations: It’s February!
Even people whose birthday is in January have told me that they don’t like January. I think it’s a great time for reading, resting and giving yourself a moratorium on all the New Year’s resolutions till…say, February. And by “yourself” I mean “myself”.
However, one thing I didn’t put off was returning to the Colour Archive, a creative routine I started in 2018, when I began mapping life in colour four swatches every week, naming them accordingly and gathering a sort of diary in colour.
So this is January in colour
Elixirs of January
the afternoon light
the crispiest blue skies
a library card
Antidotes to January
reading Annie Ernaux’s Die Leeren Schränke (Cleaning Out), 1974
sending postcards like this to people who don’t like January
apropos-of-nothing levity