From Disaster to Utopia

Through art people show who they really are. “Every portrait that is painted with feeling,” remarks Basil Haywood to the hedonistic aristocrat Henry Wotton in Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, “is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who (…) reveals himself.”^[1] For better or worse, the page, the screen, and the canvas provide boundless fields for self-expression; ossifying a fragment of the artist’s soul and preserving it through the ages.