The Consumer-isms Geography Preview: The Art Gallery
October 11, 2007
In Wain in Vain, everything is about the visual and the psychological.
Each room and piece described in the story is sending a message to the audience.
There are sweet statues that speak of quiet grace. There are statues that speak of courage. Paintings that speak of grander days.
And then there’s the room where Divinia hawks her works.
Her room houses anger and hatred.
And she knows how to build it all up — the audience and her hype.
Her reasons aren’t as complex as she’d like them to be.
But in the gallery where her exhibition is on display is complex. It is something of a maze, although at first appearance, it doesn’t seem to be.
So Divinia and the gallery are opposites of one another in opposite ways.
It is not a natural fit.
A gallery with an eclectic works — and it is not a natural fit for the title character.
