I’m blue da ba dee da ba da
I’m blue da ba dee da ba da
Connecting to the outside world via homing pigeons. The patient as an identity, somewhere to escape from the chokehold of the normal
Blue, Jaakko Pallasvuo
The search for a colour might be a search for home, the sensory allure that prompts belonging. The word ‘ecology’ comes from the Greek ‘oikos’ meaning ‘household’, ‘home’ or ‘place to live’. While green is often associated with ecology, Nelson shuns the colour green in favour of blue; her love of blue becomes a queer diversion of familiar intimacies, comfort and desire. What is it to situate one’s home in such abstractions of sense? A+E was invited by Market Gallery to facilitate discussion on what belonging means in the anthropocene as part of the On my Way Home programme.
