Behold (Daniel)

     I'd like to introduce an art work which we saw in today's class.  I chose the one titled 'Behold.'  There is one elderly couple in a box with having sad expressions on their faces like a photo below.  The sky is painted in the background.  This work is based on a poem written by Michael Haven, who is a housing coordinator in Pacific School of Religion.  The poem is shown in a photo below.  The elderly couple doesn't want to be in the box, but want to go to the outside world. This probably means that the elderly couple feel alienated.  I imagine that younger people mock the elderly couple because the younger people have a negative fixed concept for the couple.  However, the concept is not appropriate, so the couple doesn't like it. The couple seriously wants younger people to treat them as ordinary people.  The box in this art represents the negative fixed concept and the sky represents the couple's thought that they want to remove the fixed concept and want to be ordinary people.