A blue and red spoon used to stir lavender paint at the 2013 Burning Man Decompression festival. Note just a drop of aqua.

A white spoon with yellow highlights stirred red paint at the 2013 Burning Man Decompression festival.

The multicolored handle of a spoon used to stir green paint at the 2013 Burning Man Decompression festival. Note the table underneath the container.

A green spoon was colored that way after having drowned in a pool of green paint.

A spoon colored orange could not hide among the other colors on the paint lid.

A spoon had spent much too much time under the tropical sun and lay sunburned under a small tree.

A spoon colored yellow could have been the sun rising over a field of yellow flowers under a blue sky.

A spoon used to mix up an aqua color looked a bit like an miniature swimming pool.