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Dialects of Green - Joanne Lam

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A project exploring my affinity for the colour green—and how it relates to a character on The Bear—through writing, music, art, and design.

Dialects of Green - Joanne Lam Dialects of Green Feb 23, 2024 Suppose I were to begin by saying that I never fell in love with green. Suppose I were to describe the colour as my mother tongue instead; suppose I invited you into my experience of it. “Full and Gone” (2014). Joanne Lam. I. Hong Kong was not a city to me. It was our apartment building on Argyle Street with its forest green exterior, now painted over in a nondescript shade of beige. It was the jade donut on a red thread around the neck of my kindergarten crush. It was the looming hill of weathered concrete where Mimosa

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