Lorna Simpson Wigs

The focal point in this artwork would be the various types of wigs. Lorna Simpson uses a Valencia like filter on her artwork. She uses a white canvas to place her cream colored frames for the wigs, the majority of them being black, with the exception of one white wig. The technique in which she organizes her photos is somewhat like a collage of wigs. Lorna Simpson’s artwork tries to explain how the role of hair can sometimes socially identify us. Simpson photographed twenty-one different types of wigs that were all different shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. She pairs each lithographic image with small white panels printed with short phrases. One of the phrases paired with a wig read ‘first impressions are the most lasting’. The phrases …show more content…
Sayre). It is home to important relics of Buddha himself. It also contains the relics of great Buddhist teachers and monks. The Great Stupa at Sanchi was originally structured by the emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE. It is located in Sanchi in Central India. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the largest of several others. Built on top of the original shrine, which has bricks all around to make a hemisphere like dome to symbolize the earth itself. Four gateways were added to The Great Stupa to distinguish the cardinal directions. Worshipers enter through these gateways and then walked around the stupa in a clockwise direction. The hemispherical round was plane and undecorated. The gateways on the other hand were nicely carved with many scenes and figures. The scenes that were carved on the gateways symbolized narrative scenes. Although the gateways were carved with many scenes and figures, none of the scenes that were made ever depicted the Buddha in human form. The Buddha was symbolized by emblems of royalty. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is made of rubble. The stupa sits on a hill and is surrounded by an abundant amount of trees and also several other small stupas. Even though a stupa is considered a burial mound that holds the relics of Buddha and others, they also took the form of small containers or urn like forms. Some were made out of medal or stone. These small stupas held the ashes of a deceased