Pink Funeral is the exploration of identities surrounding mortality and emotion and how they each associate with color. Pink, green, blue, and yellow all have individual identities specific to our own experiences. What is a sad color? What is a happy color? What color best describes your mental state? What color do you most closely identify with your parent’s divorce when you were 9?

Colors evoke a type of catastrophic and chaotic emotion, completely unpredictable. Some colors remind us of the time we were only as tall as our grandparent’s hips as they chased behind us, struggling to catch up. Another color may remind us of the time we sobbed in silence in our cars as rain taunted our windows after the loss of a loved one. Meanwhile, some colors make us cherish the sun and remind us of how lucky we are after having to endure a natural disaster, while another color may make us reminisce about the time we first met the love of our lives. Colors have become representations of milestones in my life and upon seeing them, an amazing token of impermanence.