Sugar Coated

︎︎︎ Writing: Covered in Sugar

The message is clear: Coated in sugar, every bitterness goes down the throat within a second, without being recognized. 

“When it was mid-day, they saw a beautiful snow-white bird sitting on a bough, which sang so delightfully that they stood still and listened to it. And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted. And when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar.”

The art is covered by a glaze of prestige, aiming to attract the cultural elite. The more exclusive, the more status is produced.