beige

Now, I get it: the rice casseroles you grew up around — those beige pans of instant rice, canned vegetables, and a slurry of “cream of ___” soup — don’t exactly call you back to the kitchen.

What Torres dubs as “relaxed” green, “commercial-portrayals-of-joy” yellow, “lusty and ragey” red, “teenage” orange, “soft” beige and “mysterious” purple are all accompanied by playful examples of behaviors, objects and societal conditioning that represent each color.

While the expected range went from black to charcoal and silver gray and on to his beloved beige, his colors were artfully off the mark.

“It’s important to show up and be myself, not to try to fit into the cookie-cutter yoga beige world.”

There are dozens of her favored shirt form, each made from the same sewing pattern in colors ranging anywhere from beige to a deep magenta.