Remarks on Color: Hallelujah Hot Pink!
June's Hue

by Eve Wood | Jun 1, 2022

Dan Flavin, Traces

Hallelujah! The queen of everything has finally arrived! Never before has the church social been abuzz with so much excitement and activity, and this year Hallelujah Hot Pink is in charge of the punch bowl, which she repeatedly spiked with Cristalino Tequila when no one was looking. Ever the class clown, she can often be seen standing on her head while simultaneously strumming an electric guitar and singing the song “Sink the Pink” by AC/DC in the middle of a parking lot at two in the morning. Needless to say, no one was there to witness the event.

H.H. Pink is proud of her legacy – the color of ballet slippers and tutus, raspberry sorbet, bubblegum and cotton candy, beet hummus, chard, lip gloss, tourmaline, flamingos, jellyfish and sphynx cats. Hallelujah Hot Pink was the color of Marilyn Monroe’s famous dress in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Jackie Kennedy’s infamous two-piece suit that fateful day in 1963.

Some naysayers have claimed that Hallelujah Hot Pink isn’t really a color at all, but she’s been around for hundreds of years and even the great poet Homer described her charms in the Odyssey when he depicted a new day beginning as, “the child or morning, rosy-fingered dawn then appears.” A derivation of the color cinabrese, a mixture of the red earth pigment called sinopia and a white pigment called Bianco San Genovese, Hallelujah Hot Pink is truly a dedicated follower of fashion, championed by the great Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France in 1756. It is said she was buried in her most luxurious pink gown.

History has always favored her charms and nature shows her off to great effect from the cherry blossoms in Sendai, Japan to the gemstone Rhodochrosite, the national symbol of Argentina. Hallelujah Hot Pink may not have the red-hot sex appeal of crimson red, nor the innocence of virgin white, but put these two together and prepare to take on the world!