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No | Sorts | Colours |
29. | those that belong to the angels | sunflower yellow |
30. | preserved ones | exhibition grey |
31. | those who rise early | day-glow white |
32. | bunnies and babies | innocent white |
33. | seahorses | rainbow hues |
34. | chosen ones | fluorescent green |
35. | beggars | London smog grey |
36. | those that defy categorisation | opaque |
37. | those who are ill and suffering terribly | Rothko black |
38. | the swarming hive | busy bronze |
39. | those pulled tight with silken threads | opalescent white |
40. | miscellaneous | middling grey |
41. | those that stumble on cobble streets | stone grey |
42. | those that look like bees to the angels | busy bronze tinged with sunflower yellow |
(poem label)
Category: Lists |
Sub-Category: A Cross-Pollination of Lists |
Primary Source: Making Nature: How we see Animals, Wellcome Collection, 1 December 2016 – 21 May 2017 |
Sorts (after the essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, Jorge Luis Borges, 1952)
Colours (after Nomenclature of Colour, Abraham Werner, 1821) |
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