Friday, February 22

Helena Blavatsky

2008 mixed media
Our greatest trouble is to teach pupils not to be befooled by appearances.

- Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891)

Today the world seems more preoccupied with appearances than ever before.

She is only a teenager, but wears $400 shoes, uses a $600 phone and drives an over-priced vehicle she could never afford without her parents’ money...

She is a mature woman fighting to regain her youth, addicted to cosmetic surgery and exercising four hours a day in order to be thinner than her teenage daughters...

She is the perfect mother involved in every school event, baking healthy brownies, driving soccer carpools and ignoring a dream of one day becoming an author...