Day 26
nacarat
If I could choose to manifest a talent right now that I simply do not have, it would be the ability to understand color. To see the subtle colors that combine to make what I see as “straw” colored grass or “gray-blue” clouds. I would like to be able to look at a room that I want to paint, and then look at fifty color swatches in the paint section and actually have some idea of what they will look like on a 10 x 8’ wall.
This might be something I could learn with practice and a good visual-artist mentor, but I have been trying for years, without much luck. Of course, I have always had a fascination with the names of colors, with the words of course.
Nacarat is a kind of red-orange, a pale red-orange, “used by women to give a roseate hue to their complexions” according to finedictionary.com. I’m not typically a fan of orange, but I am a huge fan of this one’s name. I am thinking of a certain farm-egg I recently received, that looked pink, but next to a light blue egg, took on an orange hue; at least I thought so. Kari would probably have called it true. I’m thinking too of terracotta, is that right?
Nacarat is the name of restaurant in Amsterdam; named by someone who loves words too, and color perhaps. It is self-described as “sensual and sophisticated,” which is exactly how I would describe the way this word feels.
