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Looking at the waste chard stems, he suggested I transform them into some beautiful roses. In these photographs in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos we see how I have interpreted it with my touch of reflections, giving a creative touch to these small details of organic waste.
It’s a new way of looking at them, since they are not roses, but they look like one. It’s like the color pink that doesn’t actually exist, but we see it as these chard cuttings that look like roses and aren’t.
Beauty is the simple and small of every day. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see,” said French painter Edgar Degas. And he was right.
The light we see coming from the sun is the combination of all the colors together, like a set of many waves, photons moving together. When a rainbow occurs (the result of the decomposition of light through a prism, in this case, raindrops) it is not strange that we do not see pink, but, in this order, we observe red, orange, yellow , green, indigo, blue and violet.
Pink is missing from the visible spectrum, because the pigments generated from electromagnetic waves do not include this color on its own. It doesn’t have any wavelength associated with it, so we shouldn’t see it. But we see it, because our eyes make a mixture with other colors that do exist.
If we put red and white together we will get pink. Its name comes from the flower of the same name, which is pale red in color. Although it does not actually exist, it has been described since ancient times, for example, in the Odyssey. Therefore, the art of being and not being corresponds to the color pink.