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Comics: “Canvas” by Caroline Dinh

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May 4

Written By Dorothy Chan

Comic shows two girls staring at a large canvas in from of them. Girl one says, "Yeah I just don't see it. The other girl says "I mean I could have done it so easily myself"

One girl says "I'm sorry. I know that's so cliche" "You must've heard that argument so many times before"

First comic panel is of the two girls, one girl is crossing her arms. The other girl says "And I know this sounds cliche..."

girl 1: "but you didn't" "And maybe the artwork isn't the canvas but the fact that somebody dared."

Girl 1 "So.. do you get it?" Girl 2: "No but I like to give art the benefit of the doubt". "A painting doesn't need to justify itself to me... or a poem or a song. Maybe it just wasn't made for me to understand and that's ok"

"no, just altrustic" "isn't that a little defeatist? "Well I still don't see it." "That's ok. I wasn't trying to change your mind. I'm still not sure I've made up my own"

About Caroline Dinh

Caroline Dinh is a Vietnamese-American writer and artist. She edits for Backslash Lit and writes stories and software, sometimes both at the same time. She’s mildly obsessed with leitmotifs, hackathons, and the color cyan. Visit her online at https://cyborg48.github.io/.

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