In her “Legends” paintings Wieteke Heldens shows all the colors present in her studio at the time of making. She gives the colors a number as if in a legend, a caption. At the same time it is a narrative of all the colors. The colors form a story. She sees all the colors separately and without shape and thereby make a new reality. She shows all the colors she has, separately and as purely and directly as possible. This means she can then mix them into a new story. Colors are gained and colors are lost. She has made them at various times in her studio in New York and The Hague and also in Turin and South Korea. In each new place she has to make a Legend with the colors she has available.