Scarlet & Burgundy & Rose

Scarlet is the Kathakali chutti — the vivid brilliant red of the most immediately beautiful South Indian performing art makeup. Kathakali: the Kathakali (from Malayalam: കഥകളി — 'story play' — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively UNESCO-Intangible-Cultural-Heritage-specific of all the South Indian performing arts — UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2008 — the most specifically Kerala-origin and the most immediately male-performer-elaborately-costumed and the most comprehensively story-from-Hindu-epics-Mahabharata-and-Ramayana-specific of any South Indian classical dance-drama — the most directly and the most immediately years-of-training-requiring and the most specifically chutti-makeup-application-taking-minimum-4-hours of any South Indian performing arts tradition) is the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively South-Indian-performing-arts-UNESCO-specific of any Kerala traditional art — the specific vivid brilliant scarlet of the most precisely chutti — thick-lime-paste-applied rice-paste facial makeup — the most immediately specifically kathi-villain-character-type-specifically-applying and the most comprehensively Kathakali-character-identity-immediately-expressing of any South Indian performing arts makeup being simultaneously the most immediately dramatically beautiful and the most comprehensively Kathakali-traditional-art-internationally-associated of any South Indian theatrical makeup color. Burgundy is the Kerala laterite — the deep dark burgundy of the most immediately landscape-defining South Indian geological material. Kerala laterite architecture: the Kerala laterite vernacular architecture (the most immediately specifically Kerala-traditional-building-material and the most comprehensively locally-quarried-laterite-block-construction-specific of any South Indian traditional building technique — the most directly and the most immediately iron-oxide-and-aluminum-hydroxide-rich-laterite-block-quarrying and the most specifically soft-when-quarried-and-hardening-on-exposure-to-air laterite stone property-specific of any South Indian traditional building material — used in the most immediately important Kerala traditional buildings: the most specifically Padmanabhapuram Palace — the most comprehensively largest-wooden-palace-in-Asia and the most immediately Travancore-royal-palace-specific of any Kerala traditional palace; and the most specifically Kerala-coastal-Portuguese-and-Dutch-colonial-fortification-specific laterite fort construction — the most immediately Fort Kochi and the most comprehensively Dutch-colonial-laterite-building-tradition-specific of any Kerala colonial architectural heritage) is the most immediately atmospherically beautiful and the most comprehensively Kerala-landscape-color-defining of any South Indian geological material — the specific deep dark burgundy of the most precisely iron-oxide-rich and the most immediately most-brilliantly-red-laterite-stone-specific Kerala building material being simultaneously the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively Kerala-vernacular-architecture-tradition-specific of any South Indian geological building material color. Rose is the Kerala backwater lotus — the vivid electric rose of the most immediately beautiful South Indian aquatic botanical. Kerala backwaters: the Kerala backwater system (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively houseboat-cruise-tradition-specific of any Indian backwater tourism tradition — the most specifically Vembanad Lake — the largest lake in Kerala — and the most immediately Ashtamudi Lake and the most comprehensively network of interconnected lakes, canals, rivers, and tidal inlets forming the most dramatically beautiful and the most specifically coconut-palm-and-lotus-botanical-landscape-specific of any South Indian backwater ecosystem — the most directly and the most immediately Kerala-houseboat-kettuvallam-tradition-specifically-exploring and the most comprehensively most-internationally-famous-Indian-backwater-cruise-tradition of any South Indian water tourism tradition) features the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively aquatic-botanical-lotus-tradition-specific of any South Indian water ecosystem — the specific vivid electric rose of the most perfectly blooming and the most immediately most-brilliantly-rose-tropical-colored Kerala Vembanad backwater lotus being simultaneously the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively South-Indian-aquatic-botanical-tradition-photographically-specific of any Kerala backwater botanical color.