The Silent Room

This work is part of the series "The Theatre of Shame" by Trygve Skogrand, a series of collages of figures created from digitally de-constructed self-portraits of the artist, inhabiting symbolic surroundings. The subject of the series is shame. Taking as a starting point Skogrand's personal experience of shame as a Christian homosexual, the artworks explores the hidden shame of society's sub-groups, that as they inherit the values of society often carries strong prejudice against them self. This artwork "The Silent Room", has as it's subject the loneliness of shame.