GREEN, BLUE & PINK
HOW A FLAG SPILLS INTO REALITY
“People may find this uninteresting but I don’t: Djibouti’s flag is white, green, blue and red. It is the dominant colour scheme in the capital, the default design if you want to read pride of the nation.
Not only dominant in the small things, the plastic, the produce, it is like a chromatic DNA of Djibouti, let’s see: Green is not what you expect in one of the hottest countries on earth. It grows quietly at The Neem Farm where reconciliation with the land feels less like agriculture and more like defiance. Blue is the Gulf of Tadjoura — deep, unadvertised, almost indifferent to being one of the richest whale shark corridors on the planet. Pink is Lake Assal at dusk, or Lake Abbe’s flamingoes feeding in the morning.
As I show you all these wonderful places, I underline how colour is more important than what we often see and think.”
As published in FiftyFour Magazine Issue #15.
