Ladies and gentlemen, my choices for PURPLE:

In this set, I decided to take my feelings of dance and movement literally. I struck a few poses that I remembered from my 10 years of ballet as a child. The shadows on the purple wall were a part of what I enjoyed about moving my limbs in unusual angles.

I'm not sure how I feel about the color purple. It has a regal quality, and to me is neither specifically feminine nor masculine. Rather, it is generally elegant and rich. Purple has, of course, been a symbol of wealth. To me, it is a strange, otherworldly color, despite the fact that it's found in nature very easily. Something about it seems odd; unlike red, yellow, white, or green, it's not a color that you would be inclined to eat, I think.

My brother wrote me and said that he noticed this set had the most implied movement in it. He liked "the idea that each color has its own key feature like that"... which has made me have to up the ante concept-wise, and think of what possible "key features" could be contained in BLACK, ORANGE, and YELLOW.

See my other portraits: RED and BLUE, WHITE), and GREEN .