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The title for my art means “bouquet” in Arabic, and my piece shows a wedding bouquet. Each petal of the orchids symbolizes the man and the woman in a mixed marriage. All of the petals are colored with two colors. The black and white, shaded together, represent what would happen in a mixed marriage. Also, the middle of the orchid and the roses are a warm pink to show the love and happiness that happens at a wedding. Additionally, all of my lines are curvy, to show the carefree way that the two people being wed are feeling. Even though the rest of my artwork portrays happiness, the texture of the piece, which is bumpy, resembles the stress that the couple is going through.

The connection to Kehinde Wiley’s “Santos Dumont; the Father of Aviation,” is that we are both showing that people can overcome challenges similar to marginalism. Wiley’s piece takes dark skinned people and puts them into the context of European art. His artwork challenges racial marginalization in art history, and forces the viewers to see minority people in important roles.

The bouquet I drew symbolizes two people overcoming how different races are kept separated. By getting married, they are forgetting what other people think is the “right” way to act, and doing what they think they should do. I show the love and happiness that the two share, even if other people don’t approve of what they’re committing to.

In my research, I found multiple ways that individuals don’t approve of Muslims, and how they showed their disapproval. The main reason that Muslims were singled out is because of a Islamic violent extremist group that hit the Twin Towers on 9/11. Similarly, they were disfavored because of their religion. Muslims practice the religion named Islam. Islam involves certain reasons that Muslims should pray, and certain garments that the women should wear.

Consequently, people have shown their hate to Muslims in many ways. A few of those ways involve vandalizing the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, and their place of worship, a mosque. But vandalizing is not the only way people have shown their strong dislike.

A Muslim American was assaulted was in December of 2004. The woman, wearing a hijab, was taking a walk with her child in a stroller when a man almost ran her over. The woman told him that “‘You almost killed my baby!’” the man retorted saying that “‘It wouldn’t have been a big loss.’” (Archived: Post 9/11 Hate Crime Trends: Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jews in the U.S., 2005).

Aside from disapproving of Muslims, people did not, and a few still don’t, like mixed marriages. The bouquet of flowers in my artwork, is what the bride will carry up the aisle.

This woman is going to be married to a person of an opposite race. My art piece connects to my research, because I found out that mixed marriages are approved of more today, than a century ago. Nowadays, people are brave enough to go against what has been thought of as “right.”

These people make a stand. Whether it’s protesting, speaking up, or marrying someone of a different race, they are making the world bloom in many new ways.

“The Beast in Front of the Bars”

by Shea O’Brien

“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”-Axel Munthe (1857-1949).


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