IT’S
HARD TO
IMAGINE THAT
THE WORLD WAS NOT
ALWAYS IN FULL COLOR, BUT
IT’S EVEN HARDER TO IMAGINE
THAT THE FUTURE WILL ONLY BE IN CYAN
This is the introduction to Paddy Johnson’s meditation on the resistance of cyan to the bleaching effects of sunlight on an offset print; written in response to the call for entries put out by Private Circulation for their cyan issue. Deep within it is a small picture of Gary Neville stuck to the door of a football loving shopkeeper. Neville, forever a red, captain of Manchester United and embodiment of all things therein, suffers the indignity of the unforgiving sun of countless New York summers by being discoloured to a humiliating shade of cyan, the shirt colour of fierce city rivals Manchester City and giving further credence to the truth of Johnson’s opening mantra.
It’s a really nice essay, click through to read it here.
Part 1 of the January 2010 edition of Private Circulation as read by Adobe Reader, compressed