My favorite image was the illustration on page 46. The image of the goddess pitting herself between the warring humans and imploring them to stop with the war and the senseless violence. It's a striking image and it stood out to me most of all because it showed the other side of the coin. We saw so many images of propaganda that were fueling the war, and trying to get people out there, fighting each other, but then we see an image that's doing the opposite. It's graceful and elegant, and it's trying to shed light on the pointless, bloody nature of war. I found the inscription below it to be just as moving, "Both have fought hard and have suffered much in the name of humanity. Stay your hands and use your heads to find a basis of agreement."
Art and Social Change Invisible Theatre Invisible Theatre is the art of creating a performance in spaces that are not stages. The people who witness it cannot be aware it is a performance or else they would become spectators. The way this can be done is creating a solid and locked script that the actors stick to but also know it so well it allows flexibility and the ability for them to mess with it when the people witnessing the act give input or there is any disruption. The actors will prepare for anything when it comes to their performance. It is imperative to choose a location where people gather in large groups in the public. An example of how this is done is by having actors play in a scene in a crowded restaurant with many patrons. You have one actor make a big fuss over a meal they hate and the waiter offers them the nicest meal, acknowledging the price which the actor eating the meal lets it be known that the price is o...
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