Art Gallery Post #1

I attended the Art Gallery: In Light of the Body. This gallery's main focus was around human skin. All of the pieces were either a picture of people, or a close up painting of skin such as the one above. The piece above was my favorite in the gallery shown. The reason it was my favorite is because it depicted a greenish tint in it, and that greenish tint is what I believe to be the veins underneath the skin. While there were many other pieces in the gallery with many colors of skin depicted - light, dark, and different colors in between - this one depicted the veins. I appreciated the veins so much because it sees beneath the skin tone and presents something that we all have in common: blood. So much of modern day's conversation and discrepancies are found talking about things such as skin tone, but this brings us deeper to a commonality between all people, regardless of skin tone. If we are able to look deeper at what we have in common as humans, which is our life, and where we came from, our creator. We will be able to reconcile with each other and move past superficial things, such as race, and move on to eternal things, such as Heaven. This image above depicts just some of what it means to dig deeper into who we really are, which is what all of this conversation in today's society is about. 

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