Friday, February 10, 2017

Gallery Blog #4 Gallery Label Update

Artist: Stephanie Slavin
Title: They Leave Their Marks
Date: 2016
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 24" x 36"

“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” – Unknown

The photograph, They Leave Their Marks, conveys the pain and memory of verbal bullying. You can’t always see the hurtful words people use, like a bruise or a broken bone but they exist long past the point they were used. Eventually words can become a label that becomes associated with a person, something that makes people begin to see the label rather than the person. So the question becomes how do you heal from this verbal wound and how do you escape the label?

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