The Pink Book - On Skin - the Private, the Intimate and the Erotic - Helene Petersen Lundbye

The Pink Book – On Skin — the Private, the Intimate and the Erotic is dedicated to the space of the personal. A space where each individual being can know themselves Genuinely and recognise their borders, and come to know when they are to be protected, or transgressed. It is Pink, because that is the colour of our innermost layer of Skin, as well as the colour of our body-openings. It is where our nerve threads run, and as such, where we feel ourselves. As opposed to the outer layer of Skin, which alters in shades due to pigmentation, this inner layer is the same for all humans. This makes Pink the colour that connects us all. It is the space where each being meets itself. The Pink Book – On Skin — the Private, the Intimate and the Erotic' is the 10th book in the series ‘Colour Spectrum of 11 Spaces’, which consists of 11 Calligraphic Manuscripts: handwritten books created between 2011 and 2015 on the current condition of life. Within the Colour Spectrum, Pink is the book that is about the subjective being. The space that belongs to the Private person, and its own individual perception of the experience of living. The book seeks to create a structure to talk about the subjective, without forgetting the intrinsic paradox that lies in not being able to generalise this space in any way - because it belongs to the world of the Private person. 

The book begins with the space of the Private, inspiring each person to create a ‘Pink Space’ of their own that establishes a Genuine connection to themselves. The space where one truly knows oneself, and will thus be able to understand the perspective that life is distilled through, and be able to make the contextually right choices according to what one Genuinely desires. The space of the Intimate is when a Private person decides to open up towards one or many other people and expose and reveal their Genuine self. In this book the Intimate is not defined as a physical meeting, but rather as the symbolic, trusting and emotional act of opening up. Be it in the personal or professional aspects of life, in companionships or brief meetings, what these Intimate Meetings all have in common is that they are about the presence of Private Beings who share who they Genuinely are, and thus open up to one another. Finally, the space of the Erotic is defined as a Private Being that has opened up to another in the Intimate to then find each other in a physical manifestation. The Pink Space is the only thing that is ever ours to truly own, and this book is dedicated to strengthening it, protecting it, and sharing it according to what Genuinely feels right to each individual person, and unfolding our true and honest self throughout our existence.