red bars yellow wall

redbarsyellowwall
Originally uploaded by fauselr.

A wall in the El Presidio District of downtown Tucson. Red and yelow. Two colors meant to draw our attention. It's said that people who own red cars are ticketed by the police more than any other because red is easy to spot, and emergency workers wear yellow for the same reasons. Colors trigger emotions, colors attract us, colors calm us or excite us. There is a whole industry built up around how to package things to attract us to pick them up in a store and purchase them. Manufacturers study which colors are more likely to attract buyers. The colors of this wall and bars attracted me the second I saw them.