The Stage 3 revision sets up the Theory Palette with hues and tones of green (author, history, and nature), yellow (culture), purple (psyche), grey (text), red (reader), dark blue (literature), light blue (language), rose (embodiment/perception), and hot pink (intersectional feminisms).

Airbrush and pencil tools suggest color blending without diminishing the complexity of theory hues and tones, to allow more nuanced explorations of the theory concerns in play, in individual texts and across our readings. Larger paint splotches echo the setup of an artist’s palette; smaller paint splotches indicate secondary and tertiary hues and tones. Pencil lines complement the paint splotches, layering in circulation, gradation, and entanglement. In an curious side-effect, the airbrushed splotches and curling pencil lines also resemble stylized strands of holiday lights or nodes on circuit boards.