Ignorance & Want

Title:	Ignorance & Want
Genre:	Illustrated
Mediums:	Graphite, Photoshop
For Sale:	NFS
Views:	2040
Posted:	3/8/2015
Status:	Unpublished

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment. They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread... " Spirit! are they yours?' ' Scrooge could say no more. " They are Man' s,' ' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. " And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!' ' cried the Spirit... " Have they no refuge or resource?' ' cried Scrooge. " Are there no prisons?' ' said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. " Are there no workhouses?' '  - Charles Dickens, 1843