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| 'A display at the 8 point art cafe' |
The image conveys meaningful thoughts to the onlooker, but I don't
think all could pass on to the next image without experiencing the moment
subtle elements it bears.
I was lost in thought over the picture, as I could see a cage in
her hand with origami birds. She wore a flower embroidered off-white linen
tunic, with her hair parted on both sides.
Another interesting thing about the image were those paper birds
which had a word written on it repeatedly.
"Prerogative"
It was the strange silent meaning the image carried which most
people might have missed. Prerogative is a right or a privilege exclusive to a
particular individual or a class. Through the image, she too meant the same
thing. Her privilege is compared to the birds in the cage, being kept an axe to
it. The right which she is meant to enjoy is lopped off. When the society and
the human race eyes her as a normal individual, she would be left free from her
chains which fetters her identity to enable her to flutter just like the
birds.
Sitting onto a chair I found there, I started to study the image
in all its entirety. She is caged in the body of a man, struggling her way out
through the mystery of her anatomy; where she wishes people, to not let her
identity be viewed as a mere spectacle. Her attire shows the yearning
of femininity, the urge to pave her way out from the riddled self.
I had my train of thoughts running inside my head with words brimming to be poured out onto a piece of paper then. If I could pen down the emotion that she carried in a few words, this is what the image evoked in me.
"In a rented body, conjured upon
By ill fate and tightropping gender;
I stay with my flesh covered, though bare
With a question unanswered -
What wrong did I do?"
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