Omelas by Charis Loke
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Art Details
| Title: | Omelas |
| Date Created: | 2018 |
| Copyright: | © Charis Loke |
| Genre: | Illustrated |
| Mediums: | Ink, Watercolor, Photoshop |
| Views: | 651 |
| Posted: | 11/1/2018 |
About the Artist
Charis Loke
Member Since October 2017
Location: Malaysia
Description
10 x 14", sumi ink, pencil, pastel, digital. Based on ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ by Ursula K. Le Guin. Created at the Illustration Master Class 2018. How do we reconcile living at the expense of others suffering? Is the common good always justified? And what does it take to walk away from a utopia predicated upon injustice? Those are questions posed by Le Guin in her haunting story which has stayed with me ever since I read it. While painting, I thought a lot about the seven indigenous Orang Asli children who had run away from their abusive school environment in 2015; five of them perished in the jungle and only two were found seven weeks later, thanks to a combination of negligence and disinterest by the authorities. That is the kind of injustice questioned by the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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