Crimson & Violet & Gray

Violet (deep, vivid — the characteristic deep vivid violet of the Orkney aurora borealis — the most immediately spectacular and the most comprehensively dramatic natural light display visible from the Orkney Islands — the specific deep vivid violet-to-green aurora that appears with the most dramatic frequency and the most immediately impressive intensity at the latitude of the Orkney Islands — approximately 59°N — on the most clear and the most specifically geomagnetically active winter nights) and Gray (medium, neutral — the specific medium neutral gray of the Orkney flagstone — the most immediately geologically specific and the most comprehensively culturally important building material in the Orkney Islands — the specific gray Caithness flagstone that forms not only the most important contemporary Orkney buildings but the most ancient and the most immediately internationally famous Neolithic structures in Northern Europe: Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, and the Stones of Stenness) create the most specifically Orcadian and the most immediately Neolithic Northern cool-neutral pair. Against Crimson's passionate Iron Age ochre warm, this creates the most specifically Orkney Neolithic dramatic palette.

The palette is the visual world of Orkney at its most dramatically northern — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively Neolithic-monument-dense archipelago in Britain (the Orkney Islands — a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the Heart of Neolithic Orkney — encompassing Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness, and the Maes Howe passage tomb — the most comprehensively preserved and the most immediately internationally important concentration of Neolithic monuments in Northern Europe — spanning approximately 5,000 years of human occupation).