Notes from Essay:
Batchelor, David. (2000). Chromophobia, Ch4: Hanunoo, pp. 72-95. London, UK: Reakton.
To attend to colour, then, is, in part, to attend to the limits of language. it is to try to imagine, often through the medium of language, what a world without language might be like.
In a world dominated by the power of language, we often underestimate the significance of showing.
To fall into colour is to run out of words.
Are their equal and opposite stories in which exposure to colour robs a life of it’s language, stories in which a sudden flood of colour renders a speaker speechless?
My reflection after reading this essay
“Take language out and it becomes a visual unspoken memory a light, a possibility”
He must wear the coat as a yellowish-green sign of his exclusion and failures