Doniger Exhibit

In Wendy Doniger's many masks, many selves, Doniger explores the idea of putting on masks to meet society's needs, and also to put on masks to meet your own needs. That one becomes the mask they are wearing, because they seek to become what society See's them as. In class we discussed masks that society has selected for us. My exhibit is a image that portraits three girls playing jump rope wearing gas masks. While the masks they wear are physical , it also represents society's imposed masks. The innocence of the children playing is contrasted the gas masks and the gloom of oncoming war. It is a representation of society forcing people to put up masks that are not necessarily chosen.