Making My Street Art

        I wanted to begin this post with the actual photo of my street art. It is a representation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” staring the narrator, Jane. The photo depicts Jane in an unstable state of mind, hunched over on a chair, something of that nature to represent her sanity level of the narrator towards the end of the short story.

I did not look at this piece and create a real life satirical image, I kept it simple. I took the concept and let it reflect the satire in society today. The satire would be the level of independence women have present day, versus what they did have during the time this short story was written. If a woman feels a certain way about their well-being they do not need their husbands permission or consent to get a diagnosis, they proceed to be examined. In the situation from the story, the husband was a physician and she could not go above her husband’s diagnosis. That’s understandable looking at the norms of society during that time period, she did not want to bring shame to her husband’s practice. In modern society, no matter what women will do what they feel is in their best interest. They will not stand for their husband to deprive them of voicing their feelings and concerns. They will go behind their back to ensure their well-being. The reason I chose this specific way to create my art was to replicate a silhouette of the narrator and the way she felt. The wallpaper was driving her insane and the “woman” trapped inside was not making it any better. On top of that her husband confined her to the house with no other option to save herself. I felt as if I completed the task of the assignment by capturing what meant the most, from my perspective at least, of the story. 
(Sorry I did not have multiple pictures of the photo itself, nor me in the pictures.)