Color me anything

Bellacozy/Holdfast live to behold.  Images of all sorts rule our lives and a strong component we look for is color.
As evidenced in many contemporary art pieces, color decisions can make rubbish art much more pleasing to the eyes.  People like Mark Rothko and Joseph Albers have made a name for themselves just by having good color sense - and little else.
Color is something that doesn't come naturally, and BC/HF, in their own art creation, were pretty bad at it for a while.  After you recognize enough examples of good color pairing, though, it has begun to slowly set in.  Though it may be tough to create good color pairings of our own, to recognize them is an instantaneous human act.

One of HF/BC many areas of interest is Synesthesia, a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.  This creates the amazing sensation of tasting color or seeing smells.  It is difficult for those not afflicted with the condition to even fathom, but one might agree that the prospect is fascinating and highly desireable.

Didi Conn only had bubblegum hair for one number in Grease, but I always thought it suited her better than being blonde or red.

BC/HF love to look at nail polish, specifically because it immediately illustrated the product - pure color. Similarly to paint swatches in a hardware store, we could look at them for hours, and always take them.

In nature, the importance of color is highly evident.  In most species of birds, the males' worth is based upon flashy displays using beautiful plumage.  In other animals, their outward appearance is ruled by the seasons.  Sometimes, color and pattern can mean life or death.  To humans, most camouflage attemts and artificial eyes are successfully deceptive, but have only been made so after millions of years of life dependent on color.

Many bakers have produced or attempted production of rainbow cakes.  I know they have a lot of dye in them, but you better believe I'd still eat it.  This is not synesthesia.

Natural color phenomena is not limited to plants and animals, either.  Since the dawn of time, minerals have created gorgeous displays in stones, caves, sand, and riverbeds.

The flamboyant cuttlefish can change not only its color but also its texture, to warn predators of its venom, or to avoid them by blending in to its surroundings.

One of Banksy's first exhibitions, featuring an elephant in the room, painted to match the beautigul wallpaper.

Much to Holdfast's significant other's discontent, we are very into wrist watches, and prefer to wear two or more at a time.  Striking color makes telling time all the better.

Thanks to modernity, both candy and pills now come in a range of delightfully bright and appealing colors, so much so that they bear a striking resemblance to one another.

Holdfast is having a candy buffet at her wedding and Bellacozy is super-stoked.

Minerals and bacteria at work in places populated by humans change the appearance of things, too.  Rust has long been a thing of beauty to some, and backbreak to others.  A method of acheiving a rusty patina on the fly is to douse the metal with racehorse urine.

Color seems to carry a lot of weight with regard to the appeal of food, as well.  Scientists say that red and orange make us hungry, and I find food with a variety of colors to be far more appetising pre-consumption than a plate of bland.