It is quite a simple exercise. Choose a colour and then follow it wherever it leads you.
I took a picture of each of pink colored entities that was pulling me towards it.
I discovered something as I was doing this. The colour pink is mostly used in women's clothing and then relatively little elsewhere.
This therefore lead me sort of by default onto the middle aged ladies of Shanghai tour. This group were queuing to try and catch a glimpse of a celebrity.
One thing particular about it then was that most of the pink was mobile. Grey stays put whereas pink is on the move.
I followed a lady and she went into building so I left her, looked around and found a new pink target.
The delivery bike was too fast for me but it did take me a distance whereas most other pinks just took me a short way.
Sometimes the distance was quite great but as long as I remained focussed on the pink target I was good.
I got taken to a building but it was a building for fashion and it was closed for renovation.
I was starting to wonder if this pattern of following middle aged ladies was going to ever break and when the right moment to stop would be.
It was a mall. I stepped inside and saw a lady with a light pink bag and followed her.
It was a bit tricky deciding what is and isn't pink; some pinks are on the edge, too pale or mixed with oranges and reds to be pure pink but still pink enough for me.
These flowers are one such example.
That's when I realized that the mall as a whole was pink by design.
The woman who I had followed had just walked clean through the mall without stopping, for her it was an air conditioned street. For me it was a pink paradise.
Strawberries are not red they are pink!
And then the LED lighting changed colour and dropped the pink. I was left in a corner of the mall with no pink in view. It was time to stop, I had had my pink tour.
Doing this with a different colour would result in a very different sort of experience and lead me through a distinct set of spaces.
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