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Leah Brown: The Inaccessible Keys
Leah Brown grew up in North Carolina. She currently lives in South Florida and also works there. Leah's work creates more emotions to give questions and less answers. She got handed the BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and she wants to get the MFA in Sculptures from the University of Miami. Brown is vice-president of a Artists Association in Ft Lauderdale, FL, where she oversees the art perspective and work of the projects. The Inaccessible Keys is the name of the art piece. It is located at the Frost Art Museum in FIU. While the image does look like it can't be reached or examined underneath it, it is not a key thing to know except if the person is a scientist who is trying to gather data for some type of investigation the person …show more content…
Comfort hair, created and finished by Yuni Kim Lang, did this because she wanted to use the concept of her Korean heritage in a picture that she can represent towards her background. She uses really long, black wigs and puts them to her canvas to later make a certain shape and figure with the hair and the person in it. Yuni Kim was born in Korea, but later moved with her parents to China. Comfort Hair was created based on how the hair is one of the main things that identifies many individuals' life. It is a sacred entity throughtout many years and the ways it has been treated. It can be seen as a social status sign and a dramatic social trends depending on how the new fashion has treated. The looks of this piece of art did not make me feel good. As I saw it, other emotions and questions came to me. I felt stressed, closed-in, and limited in space in the room I was in. As I spent a total of two to five minutes analyzing the image, I wondered why a long hair is needed? How did you manage to collect a certain amount of hair? Why have a white background and not another image behind that had more of a message? Confusion was also starting to rise

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