But your reaction to a color also depends heavily on where you live, where you were raised, and the context within which you experience that color. In China, red means luck and fortune. In the United States, red represents danger; it means to be alert or to stop. If you walk into a red room as someone from China, you might feel lucky; in the United

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Colour choices

Some colours are your very best friends, they feel like home. Others are your worst enemies. They can be truly terrifying.

“Sometimes when someone hugs me and I feel safe or protected, then everything is covered in a light, translucent cyan. When I’m feeling loved the world is pinker than usual (a very pale pink). When I’m angry it’s a bright but translucent red hue around everything.”

He would subsequently reflect on this encounter: “The brochure advised me that it was a haystack. I had no idea what that was. This non-recognition was excruciatingly distressing for me. The painter, in my opinion, had no right to depict incoherently. I had a distinct impression that the painting’s subject was absent. And I was surprised and

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