1980 HighSchoolPortraitScienceLab giclleeprintoforiginalGoucepainting bees
Originally uploaded by Cherry Spectrum
Artist: Bees (of Bees and Trees); Asheville, NC
Title: 1980 High School Portrait Science Lab
Medium: Gauche on paper
Available: Etsy.com
Appeal:
Were you or did you know a dork growing up? Did they look anything like this girl? I love this painting because it captures that same vulnerability I felt in High School. This girl looks like, pardon the cliche', a deer caught in headlights; uncertain what to expect next. We're thrown into this Lord of the Flies chasm facing what seems like life and death which forces us to sink or swim. Those who survive can look back and laugh at how unfashionable we looked doing it and maybe wince wondering what it might be like on a second go-round.
Bee's unsure vulnerable teen summarizes the American High School experience in true early 80's fashion; her subject obviously surviving but wonderous of what lies ahead. Can you imagine how much her life changed when contacts became widely available and affordable? Ah, the future we have yet to see- now DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!!
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