Luck
A charcoal drawing exploring how luck can play an important part in health.
Artist
CSW Student (2016)
Caption
Health, in many ways, depends on luck and where you are born. In this charcoal drawing, the letters L, U, and C are balancing uncertainly on top of a fairly unstable K. The K represents a table that all of luck rests on, and its precariousness represents how quickly luck can change—how fleeting it is.
Artist Lens
Each artwork aimed to show something that would symbolize the whole course in one word. And the word “luck” was one that got a lot of debate. Some argued that your health is very much determined by luck. If you happened to be born in the U.S., if you happened to be born in Massachusetts, that’s incredible luck.
This student was adopted from another country and had a personal sense and awareness that luck had been important for them. The idea that it’s all tipping on this table was powerful for them as an individual. But it was also powerful for the class to think of all the data and policies they’d studied and say, those are all important, but really it just comes down to “Were you lucky?”
Media
Charcoal