Feingold Gallery: Coming Out, A Cold Day in Hell

Feingold Gallery [5]:
Coming Out, A Cold Day in Hell

The design of this gallery is aimed at encouraging conversation involving both immediate and reflective thought, individual and collective. Rather than starting by reading comments of others, please first put your own immediate thoughts in the on-line forum below. This way, we'll all be able to see how much similarity and difference there is in our initial reactions and interpretations of the images. Then go back to see what others have said about this image and add whatever new thoughts you have as a result of that. More general thoughts about the collection of images and/or this exhibit as a whole are welcome in the on-line forum on the exhibit home page [6].

Comments

creativity [7]

Submitted by shane (guest) on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 11:35pm.

this image reminds me of great creativity in adversity and the decision to vanquish the opposition.

alienating oneself...... [8]

Submitted by divi (guest) on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 10:32am.

the words comming to my mind after seeing this are
fear...afraid to come out and share his views...probably alienating oneslf from everything and everyone out there....keeping things to himself and not comfortable to share with others..

I see someone who is confused [9]

Submitted by idk (guest) on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 1:20am.

I see someone who is confused on which road to take in life...There is the right way, which in this case is the windows, which are to me of light and happiness knowing you will never be hurt and always do the right thing.., yet on the other hand there is some force also sayin stay on the darkside, and do what you want without regrettin it..

Lost in nowhere land, maybe [10]

Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 1:57pm.

Lost in nowhere land, maybe a daze. bumping into windows of oppertunity along the way but there's those skulls that make me seee set backs. The fact that these windows are closed tells me that opertunities were seen but not acted apon'.

Reminds me of the twilight [11]

Submitted by Martin on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 4:03pm.

Reminds me of the twilight zone... I didn't pick up on the homosexual "coming out" idiom until reading other posts... is there another way to interpret that phrase?

Does this compare [12]

Submitted by ryan g on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 1:24pm.

Does this compare homosexuality to a mental illness? This person will never come out. Perhaps they're scared.

Cold and disturbed [13]

Submitted by mstokes on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 11:19am.

are the feelings evoked by the snow, skulls, and obscured windows--not an inviting environment to seek out or step into.

Acknowledgement does not [14]

Submitted by akerle on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 11:15am.

Acknowledgement does not make reality/the experience of this individual any more accessable or any less surreal.

Trying to break free [15]

Submitted by kmanning on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 8:45am.

The pain associated with trying to break free from his own mind. The heat of hell alone is not enough to represent the pain, instead something so cold that it can freeze over hell is needed.