Uncover The Cover
What’s behind a front cover? Before the written words that sprawl over filled pages, is a story that begs to be told.
Like the message it bears, the elements of this photo are of very organic sources. No model paid for, no accessories orchestrated, no spurious poses rehearsed. Conservatively styled with contagion gear later actually used to walk the COVID-19-riddled streets, and a plumeria plucked from the muddy dirt be-flowered by the fallen but unforgotten, it is a symbolism of the pandemic’s unadorned truths.
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At the core of this indigenous art is the kind of hope that is fatally elusive, but no less, existent. In his nakedness, man lie equally exposed to the alien virulence, unprotected by neither social stature nor fiscal strength. From the net of safety brought by powdered rubber gloves and filtered surgical masks rise the existential need for relief, for reprieve from the protective articles that prolong our existence but dim out our lives. The pivotal search for the golden elixir that heals the incurable eventually drives man to unexplored heights and unprecedented sacrifices.
The untold is now spoken, our race stop at nothing until we hold in our own hands, the ambiguous Antiserum.