Artists seem to love red. It is the perfect color for: flowers; a fiery starlit sky on a summer night; the warm red and pink hues of a rosy dawn; a passionate torrid romance; a clandestine intimate meeting in a dream; a late summer perennial garden; a portal into one’s soul; sensuality and seduction; an explosive situation: environmental disaster or amorous encounter; Japanese-inspired calligraphic imagery using a bamboo rake; the coursing of blood in a human’s veins; and the passion in religion.