Presented for the first time in the United States, Gary Hill's Observaciones Sobre los Colores (1998) was filmed and produced in Caracas, Venezuela and subsequently smuggled out the same year. Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour, Part 1(1951), consisting of 88 segments, in real time over a period of 78 minutes.Hill provided a modified version of the book with all proper names, philosophical terms and scientific language replaced with phonetically spelled versions. A reaction to Goethe's Theory of Colours (1810), Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour remains famously impenetrable on account of its complex fragmentation; despite great effort, the boy’s reading is laboriously staggered and uncomprehending. Unable to comfortably understand the auditory content, one’s attention shifts to the visual: a young boy with black hair clothed in a yellow shirt reading from a white book, superimposed against archival footage produced by the non-governmental association Active Citizenship documenting the 2002 Venezuelan protests directly against the government of President Hugo Chavez.