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...contrast to Harvard's myriad theatrical productions, concerts and coffee-house-readings, there is a distinct paucity of visual art mounted by students for public display. An anomaly in the Harvard art world, the exhibition of student work by Elizabeth Lakshmi Kanter '99 in Eliot Basement reaches a caliber of aesthetic quality sure to inspire an increase in independent student showings. Comprised of work by six student artists, the intense subject matter of "Departures, Losses, Separations", is well suited to the intimate exhibit space of the basement-turned-gallery...
...remaining three photographers diversified the exhibit's themes of loss and separation. Dara Young Cho '00, a VES concentrator, presented portraits of Vietnamese families who have immigrated to America. While all the images show the subjects "at home," the essence of separation in her work lies in the fact that these children, grandmothers, brothers and fathers are all thousands of miles from their homeland. Three siblings sit in front of stylized American wallpaper, but above their heads are paintings and family portraits in Vietnam. One wife sits with her husband on their couch digging her bare toes into the carpet...
Vanko Vankov rounded out the group of artists with his 3-D contribution to the exhibit. A brightly painted coffin filled with fresh flowers was the focal point of the room's center thanks to the sophomore's efforts. His bio added a bit of levity to the show as well. "Vanko Vankov was born in 1978 in Bulgaria," it read "He hopes to live forever; the coffin he made is for someone else...
Lots of people, of course, would like to draw broader conclusions from the study. For instance, does it support the belief that, despite all these inherent errors pointing to destruction, humankind's survival shows it has the capacity to overcome itself and exhibit a spark of the divine? Well, "the study allows one to speculate that we are not so tied to natural selection pressures," Gorman says. "We have the ability to shape our environment." What about the belief that sex is good for you? Since the study shows that the rate of genetic errors is high, "the study supports...
...Exhibit A: A coloring book from the police in Montgomery County, Md., warns children, "You cannot tell if a stranger is dangerous by the way he or she looks. A dangerous stranger could look and act like a very nice person." The accompanying drawing is of four adults who look like the neighbors in an old Dick-and-Jane reader, among them a well-dressed elderly woman...