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Love the Lord: A Senior Mise en Scene Illustration by Arian Dehnow (2012)

The backstory behind this picture is this: the woman photographed is from a very religious family. She is married to her very conservative, religious husband, to whom she concedes all of her power as a human being. Basically, she is the meek, agreeable, powerless wife. Her husband reads from the bible to her and her son every night. Her 7-year-old son has been taught to ''love thy Lord,'' and when he sees an interview with a gay man on the television, he starts to think that he himself is gay for loving the Lord, a largely masculine figure in his mind. He brings up his newfound sexuality at the dinner table. His father is outraged and doesn't know what to do, so, in a irrational act of desperation, he tells his son that he has been reading the Bible wrong and that God is actually a female. Realizing that his father made a mistake, the boy is relieved. He tells his father that mom should start reading to them every night because she doesn't make mistakes. Suddenly the power has shifted, suddenly the mother has attention and respect. My artwork displays this shift of power by highlighting the mother's face with a bright blue. She had previously been a plain brown, fading into the background, but now she glows! Now she has attention! Yata!
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