Photography

Don't judge a book by it's cover

The prominent theme of the book Beloved by Toni Morrison is the after math slavery had on everyone involved. It dehumanized the people enslaved and the people being enslaved. The main character in the story, Sethe loves her children more then anything, but she does not always allow her self to express this love in the traditional sense because of the traumatic experiences that haunt her from the days back on the plantation.
The reason I decided to draw both a heart and a lock on my models hands were because I beleive the heart represents the love the characters are capable of and the lock represents what is holding them back from giving it. Another reason for incooperating the heart in the lock is due to a reference that is constantly made in the book about "the metal lock box inside my chest".