An exploration of chromophobia* after an extended stay in Mexico. The straight-edged lines of Toronto’s urban centre are juxtaposed with urban scenes of Mexico city. Realities are inverted: Toronto becomes bathed in unfamiliar, vibrant colour.

“in the West, since Antiquity, colour has been systematically marginalized, reviled, diminished and degraded…colour is relegated to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential or the cosmetic…Colour is dangerous, or it is trivial, or it is both….Either way, colour is routinely excluded from the higher concerns of the Mind. It is other to the higher values of Western culture…Or colour is the corruption of culture…”

David Batchelor, excerpt from Chromophobia, London: Reaktion, 2000, p. 22-23.