Last week's watercolor class featured a guest speaker, Rachel Davis, who pointed out that we are fortunate to live in a country where art is not censored. This weekend we saw a play, The Left Hand of Darkness, touching on a similar theme: stories-about-important-stuff being squelched by those in power.
Our assignment for the upcoming class was to use alternative w/c methods and include abstraction, so I decided to try to depict imaginary scenes seen "with" and "without" a totalitarian "veil" in the way.
Putting the box (shown below) over one's head and looking out through a "veil" will hopefully prove successful when presented in class.
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| One of the "veils" (mounted on a cardboard box so you can look through it) |
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| The sort of thing you might find if you didn't have to look through a (figurative) veil. Torn paper at top is raised "veil." |
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| The veil covering the picture of leaves shown above |
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| Two of five sides of the "veil box" -- represents uncensored art-making |
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| More sides of the box -- below is program cover for a play dealing with squelched stories. |
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| Two sides of the box -- third "veil" is to the right. |
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