Lemon Yellow 

Curator: This is "Lemon Yellow," produced by Tizian Color Co. Editor: It’s…assertive. Bright, almost aggressively cheerful. Curator: Indeed. Thinking about pigment production during this period, we must consider labor conditions, the raw materials, and the global trade networks that made such colors accessible. Editor: Absolutely. I'm also considering how color itself is culturally constructed. Yellow, for example, has historically carried complex and often contradictory associations. It could symbolize joy, intellect, but also betrayal. Curator: Precisely, these associations are tied to the material conditions of its production. Editor: Seeing it presented like this, raw, divorced from application, makes those tensions particularly apparent. I appreciate its unsettling honesty. Curator: A potent reminder that even the simplest color has a complex, often obscured history.