Sky Pape Fine Art Drawing

03-18-05
trio
mixed media on paper

Society tends to diminish our individualism, reducing us to numbers, ratings, choice demographic groups. At the same time, advertising exhorts us to express our individuality through consumerism (Buy more! Indulge your whims!). Even in the age of cloning, being truly individual seems more inevitable than important. This is the month when my sister Paula was born and died. An individual gone forever, having made that solitary journey. I think about how we were made of the same stuff, how alike and how different we were, and how painfully I still and always will miss her.

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