#  Luck 

 





A charcoal drawing exploring how luck can play an important part in health.



 

July 01, 2016

 

 

## 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.

 ![A charcoal drawing of the word "Luck" with each letter stacked vertically on top.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10866/files/2025-07/Luck.jpg)

 

## 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

[Download Luck PDF](/file_url/734)



 

 

 



 

 

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