I have a weird relationship with the colour pink.
I used to watch TV a lot when I was a child, and all the toys “for girls” in advertisement would be pink.
My mum was not a conventional woman, she was not wearing skirts or make up, and she loved reading books.
She read “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco, and probably all the other books she possessed, plus library books.
I tried to read “Foucault’s Pendulum” when I was a teenager. I was studying physics in school at that time, and I couldn’t read more than a few pages, it reminded me of that obscure and boring subject in class.
And it also gave me more respect for my mum, who had been able to read the whole book!
When I was a little girl I would beg my mum to let me wear dresses and skirts, and let my hair grow, but she would buy me "boy clothes" and keep my hair short.
Eventually I started to wear more of the clothes I liked (or thought I liked).
This is a rare picture of me wearing pink.
And now that I think of it… a photo of my mum on a fuchsia polo t-shirt comes to mind. She would wear pink too!
Now I rarely wear pink, but I do like to use it in my art.
The first heart I made is pink. Fuchsia pink. It’s a colour that gives me a good feeling. And it is the colour I associate with energy centre number 8, the place where we receive inspiration, and downloads from.
In 2019 I had the idea of making a new artwork.
I had a big canvas 100x120 cm, and I prepared ninja stars of the 7 colours of the rainbow.
I placed the stars on a pattern, but I felt like something was missing.
So I added 4 fuchsia stars at the top. And I thought: it’s finished, it’s complete.
After some time I understood the meaning of it.
Because my hands knew more than my head.
It took time for my brain to understand what my hands got straight from intuition.
I had created a representation of the energy in the body being all aligned.
Like the experience I had when meditating at Dr Joe Dispenza’s Progressive Workshop two months before making that artwork.
Every energy centre in our body can be associated to a colour: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue, purple, and fuchsia.
Recently I transformed that pattern into a digital design for clothing, with the word “Aligned”.
It’s like a declaration of me (or you, the wearer) feeling aligned, or having the intention of being aligned, of wellbeing.
My first heart artwork “Heart” was pink too. It is the heart shape of my logo and of other artworks.
The yellow tetrahedron represent the people that we carry in our heart, the heart of the heart.
I made an artwork with 2 canvases, 100x30 cm each. It’s called “Inspiration”.
It represents two people (two hearts) connected by energy. I used the colour pink for inspiration, the colour purple for spirituality and the colour yellow for action. One of the hearts is more action oriented and the other is more spiritual. They continually inspire each other with a wave of energy going from one to the other and forming a circle of 8 triangles in the middle, in a constant flow of inspiration.
I used some pink in “Heart Expansion” and “Heart Expansion 2.0”, "Armonia" and "The Heart of the Rainbow", together with many other colours.
In this pictures the 4 artworks are in exhibition in Venice, in Palazzo Albrizzi Capello. I love the natural light that forms new, original shadows.
And I created “Love Pink” that is part of the “Love…” series. It has the fuchsia colour, together with yellow and purple, like in “Inspiration”. I transformed it in a digital design for clothing.
I find interesting that when I was publishing my “Love Pink” clothing, the film “Barbie” was in cinemas. I watched some interviews about it, and I found very refreshing that in the movie there is a reverse view of society and a message of equality and balance between the sexes.
“Pink is for girls and blue is for boys” is just an idea that marketers, toy makers, advertisers pushed on society. And many of us took the programs.
But just 100 years ago the colours were reversed, pink was used for baby boys’ clothes, blue for baby girls’.
Pink, like red, was considered a colour of strength. In Britain for example, families wanted their boys to join the army and wear the red uniform.
It would be nice if we could forget or unlearn the meaning we associate to colours because of the conditioning of the external world, and just find our own meaning, based on how that colour or piece of art makes us feel.
And the more we think and look at things that make us feel good, the more we find peace and joy, and we spread it around us, for a better world.
Una Marzorati
unamarz Creations