Disparity
A charcoal drawing exploring unequal distribution of access, health supplies, and education.
Large health disparities exist between those who have resources and those who don’t. This work is about the issues of when access, health supplies, and education are not equitably distributed. The image itself is quite dramatic: the page and the letters are strikingly divided in half black and half white. Fingertips reach up toward the top of the page, hoping to get some of the goods in an inequitable world.
Artist
CSW Student (2016)
Artist Lens
This student was thinking about almost a Northern and Southern Hemisphere with the image divided in black and white. They printed the word “disparity” in this broken way, which adds to the difficulty of the issue. The student included fingerprints and reaching up as if trying to get up to the goods and a handprint sliding down.
In this course, I think this student was quite surprised to learn in more depth how the rest of the world’s access and resources are so limited. They had everything they needed, and the school had everything the students needed, but they had learned that there are people slipping away, not because the materials aren’t there, but because the materials aren’t distributed fairly.
Media
Charcoal