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Reviewing most of the art and advertisement work that deal with diminishing the racial and ethnic barriers, I found out that such work often resulted is rather a stereotype act than a creative manner. The concentration on the subject from the designer/artist part has been shifting more from the dynamics of creativity in favor of replacing them with rigid symmetry or repetition of images. Almost every work that dealt with that topic can simply be either split into two identical halves with different colors, or into a group of repeated items with different colors.

 

My sense of duty as an artist wanted to bring up that subject differently. Hence, I worked on my The Meteor Shower Watchers painting to restore a dynamic view of a world of diversity.

 

The Meteor Shower Watchers simply represent what five friends of different ethnicities would do if they were enjoying a simple activity. It says that we’re not all the same robots with different colors; it rather indicates that we are different people with different colors, yet we’re equal and would enjoy the same simple things after all. The featured five kids watching the meteor shower are enjoying the night sky together, yet acting differently. The meteor shower itself is colored. The Geminid meteor shower is known for producing multi-colored shooting stars; white, yellow, blue, red and green. It is viewed in mid-December, and the night stars in the painting reflect the actual night sky of December as viewed from the United States and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

 

The five kids represent the four major races of humanity, in addition to a fifth one symbolizing the human race as one.

 

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