My book Land of Lost Socks is about a child who discovers diversity. To illustrate this concept, I stepped out of my comfort zone, finding diversity in color, shape, and size through Cubism. For the past four days, I studied Cubism, founded by George Braque and Pablo Picasso. I never appreciated Picasso until I attempted Cubism to illustrate diversity within diversity. Each cube represents the individual within a cultural construct, as each sock is unique in the Land of Lost Socks. I modeled the drawing after Picasso’s paintings of people, seeing objects from two perspectives instead of one. Each cube was shaded differently to represent a changing light source, the light from the inside of one’s soul that shines through them, and expands out into the world. The confinement of the sock shape is one’s limitations within the universe created in the mind. One can either be the center of their universe, or part of the whole universe expanding. By breaking the rules of realism, one can venture outside oneself, through a different lens, seeing the beauty in ugliness, the shadow in the light, the integrated whole self. Land of Lost Socks celebrates diversity within diversity, as the source of light within the soul of many socks joining together and shining as one light.
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