Colors have sound.
My father stared intently at a red circle and said,
“Red is an angry color—it’s so loud.
It’s deafening, almost painful to the ears.”
It puzzled me that my father, who couldn’t hear any sound,
would say something like that.
I asked, genuinely curious,
“Why do you think colors have sound, Dad?”

Perhaps he longed for sound so deeply
that he found it even in colors.
As he reflected on my question,
my deaf father recalled a childhood memory.
“When I was in school, I once saw a painting of a man
covering his ears, screaming.
The sky above his head was a swirling, fiery red.
Even without hearing, I could feel how loud it was.
That image has stayed with me ever since.”

Emotion, perception, intensity