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Liberia
Permanent Sam Wilmot
Age 11
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Commentary
A person's psyche and consience are split open and bared
in this x-ray vision of a head from Liberia. That the dominant colors
are blue and black culminate to a deep sadness within the piece, not to
mention a woman in tears as the focal point in the work. Here, the protagonist
(main head) is thinking or dreaming of the world, yet so much sadness
needs to be overcome before there can be change. The early physiognomists
would have liked the small fist in the chin, which denotes strength of
purpose in the dreamer. The visionary head imagines adequate use of the
land and its resources, people in harmony witht he process of living,
especially as regards the soil and the education of peaceful people. Perhaps
the central woman is not weeping solely for the past, but for the present
and future which are so hard to change.
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