Juan José Rosales works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. Juan José Rosales keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. Only 7.6% is devoted to #E2D6CE, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. Spanning 50 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. This is palette 1 of Juan José Rosales's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.