A look of anger will make your heart speed up and your blood vessels dilate until your skin
turns red; a look of fear can make your hands cold and
clammy and your hairs stand on end; a look of disgust can make you nauseated.
Bernhardt is much looser, her color more electric and intense, bordering on tropical fish that pool in psychedelic lagoons, thinning out, then building up in gluts that
turn into brambly palimpsests and
clammy reservoirs of iridescence.