MAYA GOO

I wiLL LOVE ANYONE WHO LOVES YOU, 2021

“You say red is fast and impulsive. I agree but I also think there is red in pink, and the deepness red holds, and how it sucks you in, floats around in pink. There is a tenderness in pink that red does not convey, I think of red silk, or a red river as the softest form of red, but to me that is still a burning, a flame, intensity. But pink is the long stretched out red. Its when red has been through the wash too many times. many ups and downs, a lot of tumbeling. much bleeding. Just like us. And so we have pink. we sit with pink. we sit in pink. And we still feel that red, under all that white and washed out world we live in. There is pink everywhere.” (From a love letter from an ex)

I wrote privately, “you told me you thought I was pink, and I resented you for thinking I was so soft.”