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This piece came to mind one day while I was listening to either Morning Edition or All Things Considered on N.P.R. They were discussing one public outcry or another, and I was thinking about how concepts of morality differ from person to person, and how many of the things that I feel strongly about, someone else may see as being extraordinarily radical - having "crossed the line" into immorality, so to speak. So then this idea came of illustrating that concept. I think, though, that what I created, rather than being simply an illustration, has once again returned to more philosophical roots. Here I show the ball of string unravelling itself and crossing into the upper regions of the image, the delineation of which is shown literally by the piece of horizontal metal. The ball has been boxed in by the various rusted objects, perhaps representing an old way of thinking or being that one finds repressive. The string has found a way out of that box and is slowly working its way to the freedom of thought represented by the feather. Where I usually carefully choose my background fabric to further illustrate the theme of the piece, in this case, I chose it because I needed the string to stand in stark contrast to its background. Perhaps then, the silver-black does make sense metaphorically, representing both the old pattern of thinking and the glimmer of the new at the same time. |