Power and Beauty No. 6 1968

Editor: This is "Power and Beauty No. 6" by Colin Self. Those peacock feathers really grab you, don’t they? It's kind of overwhelming, almost hypnotic. How do you interpret this work? Curator: It’s a visual feast, isn't it? It reminds me of Busby Berkeley's choreography, but with feathers. I feel it’s about display, about the performance of identity. Do you feel a sense of vulnerability beneath all that ostentation? Editor: Interesting! I was so caught up in the colors, I didn’t think about vulnerability. Curator: Perhaps it's there, perhaps it's not. But it's the beauty of art; it always keeps us questioning! Editor: So true! I'll definitely look at peacocks differently now!