Lei Curtis – Speaking Volumes

Superior

Lei Curtis
La Grange, Illinois
Superior, 2007
Mixed media

“When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners’ homes, but instruments of terror.”
-Adolf Hitler

“There were many ways of not burdening one’s conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that [we] had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.”

-Richard von Weizsaecker

“You never forget the cruelty and hate that people bestow onto each other…but when it is bestowed onto you it leaves a mark on your heart that you will never forget,and always have to live with.”
-Lei Curtis’ great-grandmother (Holocaust survivor, RIP)

My family has seen firsthand how hate and intolerance affects people and the world around us. My great-grandmother and my grandmother were the only members of my mom’s family to survive the Holocaust. Proud of my Jewish heritage, I felt compelled to create an artwork that would help educate and enlighten people to the effects and consequences of hate.

Bio
Lei Curtis created this artwork when she was a junior 3D-studio art major with an emphasis in ceramics at Eastern Illinois University.

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