Skin There are seven colors in the rainbow There are six colors of skin Genetics dictate, pigmentations divide If I eat too much carrot will my skin change color, and if so, am I any different from you? It’s not the shade of a child’s skin. It is the fear a child learns which their adults bring in. Human kindness comes from within, not from the differing colors of skin. Do you think it as simple as color? Does it help you fit in? Does protesting alleviate your sin? Do you have close friends of a different color? Do you know what it’s like to live life with another Skin? /////
Maggie Hall is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and writer who lives in the coastal suburb of Merewether, Newcastle, NSW Australia with a degree in Fine Arts, Master of Creative Industries, and other related studies. Her practice enlists the application of pattern and behaviour through each chosen medium. Ms. Hall traditionally works through a stream of consciousness between each form of art and chosen script and her craft covers the visual arts; written; ekphrastic; and symbolic translation. During these times of isolation and metamorphic social change she has been an active member in the global online community of the poetic arts.
From the artist: “With intuition as my guide, and an awareness of artistic tradition, I attempt to reveal a presence that may give us clues to what is living between the real and unreal. I am not seeking a form of aesthetic contemplation, but a way of guidance, and my art is the documentation of this search.”
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