This issue of Viewpoint Color Magazine is about pleasure and all the things that brings us pleasure. As worries grow, from climate change to economic instability, we instinctively gravitate toward moments of comfort. The role of pleasure in our lives is becoming more vital than ever. Whether it’s the comfort of food, the escape of entertainment, or the calm of stillness, pleasure offers a powerful relief to the pressures of modern life. Indeed, as challenges mount, it is fast becoming a fundamental human need, a source of resilience, and a counter balance to chaos.
Human pleasures have evolved alongside societal and technological shifts, moving from the instinct to survive via our basic needs of food and shelter, to encompassing a wider range of experiences, including social connections, entertainment, and self-expression. There is a tendency to think about pleasure as a purely hedonistic and individualistic pursuit.However, pleasure is not just about instant gratification but is an emotion critical to our survival. Our brains are wired to register pleasure. Our neural circuits, particularly the release of dopamine, enhance the desire to repeat pleasurable experiences,ensuring that we prioritise activities that support our survival and reproduction.
What defines Mexico City for me is undoubtedly the vibrant and electrifying shade of fuchsia proudly known by Mexicans as Rosa Mexicano. Although not part of Mexico’s official national color scheme, this hue has become a symbol of cultural identity and pride.
Driven by a yearning for positive and happier futures, a mood of optimism is welcomed with arms wide open and enthusiastically embraced. The hy- per-warm and energetic ultra brights of previous seasons now give way to deliciously bold berry tones that feel ripe with both potential and flavour. Seasonally appropriate, this grouping creates a new route for enriched midtones and accents.
Between the blush of pink, the warm whisper of orange, and the purity of white, a hueisborn that does not impose, it offers itself. It is the color of imagined skin, of gentle matter, of visual affection. This shade, what we might callsoft dermal, evokes the tactile, the sensory, the deeply hu-man. It is not merely a color: it is a chromatic caress, an atmosphere of quiet sensuality and loving calm.
Love,while deeply emotional, is also made up of essential elements that must work together in balance. It is a structure, something we co-create with intention,awareness, and care.
I think living close to nature is good for humankind, and Brazil is the perfect place for that, especially as the world is speeding up, everything is moving faster and the quality of things gets forgotten. Buildings set in naturehave a certain stillness tothem; they make me quiet and calm.
Sex and pleasure particularly in its intersection with female sexuality and desire, has long been a compelling subject in the arts. Historically obscured by patriarchal conventions or rendered through a male gaze, female pleasure is now increasingly explored by women artists with agency, complexity, and layered ambiguity. Greek contemporary painter, Stella Kapezanou, stands out in this domain.
