Salmon is the colour of a wild fish that is neither wild, nor fish, nor even salmon. But they are not alone. The changing tones of many other species are warning signs of an environmental crisis, where the colours of life—flesh, scales, feathers, skin, leaves, wings—are increasingly altered by synthetic substances ingested and absorbed by organisms. These shifts are both symptoms and signals of profound ecological and metabolic transformations around and inside us. Salmon: A Red Herring interrogates the colours we expect in ‘natural’ environments, compelling us to confront how human interventions distort the perception of colour as we change the planet.
— 2020, SALMON: A RED HERRING, Cooking Sections
