This piece, rightfully entitled “Left in a Right World,” is a digital composition that was created to exhibit the personal identity of the artist. The artist identifies with the hardships of being a left-handed person in a right-handed world, and wanted to illustrate the frustrations that come along with this idiosyncrasy.
The medium for this piece is both digital projection and print. The specific subjects are the eight different stamp designs that can be seen on the left side of the composition. The secondary subject is the anchorage text of the right side of the piece to accompany the design and clarify the intention of the stamps. The design is geometric with clean lines and bold text to present the audience with a composition that is orderly and easy to comprehend.
The context of the piece is a topic which is quite meaningful to the artist. Being left-handed herself, the artist wanted to acknowledge the extent in which left-handed people struggle whilst living in a right-handed world. The most appropriate way the artist thought to demonstrate the plight of left-handers was to commemorate their struggles with a book of stamps for National Left-Handers Day. As stamp books are often used to recognize important holidays, the artist chose this format as she thought it would be humorous to modify normally generic stamps to honor a trivial and largely unrecognized holiday. Each stamp represents a task that becomes more difficult when one is left-handed. The designs are created using quirky color combinations. This choice comes with the intent of the artist to exemplify the often zany reputation that most left-handers hold in society. The artist feels as though she successfully fulfilled her intention of conveying the tribulations of being left-handed in a manner that was comical.
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