Colors can be mirrors that bend the eye. Picture a surface that, when you look at it from one angle, it feels like a sunrise, and when you tilt it, it swallows the quiet of a twilight sea. That’s not just pigment, it’s a tiny lattice of molecules arranged to play with light, a living prism. If you mix iridescent flakes into a matte base and then layer a transparent glaze, the light scatters differently from each side. The trick is to let the pigment’s structure be the storyteller, not the artist’s hand—so the observer’s gaze becomes the shifting lens.