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"Year of the Rat: 2020" and "Future World"

"Year of the Rat 2020" painting by Dorothy Annette

The video below features Dorothy Annette speaking about her paintings "Year of the Rat: 2020" and a "Future World" we can live into.

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I'm Dorothy Annette and it's my great

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pleasure to share my work with you

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art aside from projecting Beauty has a

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responsibility to awaken its viewers to

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the realities of society

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year of the Rat 2020 depicts a time of

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isolation

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our world was reduced to living in Pods

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at best

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and not in community

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this painting is a metaphor for how the

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events of the Year affected me

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this unusual time period

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in the middle of a pandemic precipitated

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a new awareness

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of the need for positive social change

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the second painting future World shows

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my dream of an evolution to a world

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where everyone belongs and everyone

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lives in harmony

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auspicious accordant

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and empathetic

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thank you

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[Applause]

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thank you

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thank you

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foreign

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foreign

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shoes

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thank you

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