Artist Statement Outline

In class, we are creating art pieces combining a creative arts person from United States history, and a historical situation or person from the more non-creative nonfiction side of the United States history, and creating both an art piece, and an artists statement on the art piece. I chose to use a quote from Dr. Seuss' book Oh, The Places You'll Go!, and the 9-11 situation from 2001. Here is the rough draft of the art piece that I have going.
The thesis statement that I have so far for my artists statement is, "The correlation between this quote from Theodore Geisel's Oh, The Places You'll Go! and the 9-11 incident can be interpreted many different ways, including a literal, and figurative sense, and each of these can also be applied to three groups of people in the pictures situation, the terrorists, the people on the planes, and the people in the rescue at after the incident occurs."

The first paragraph will start with a question, asking the reader what they think about destiny or fate.  Then it will go on and bring up the picture and the quote and how they fit together.

From this, the first two paragraphs would go over the literal and figurative meanings of the terrorists situation, talking about how they could have chosen to do this and volunteered or they might have been forced to this by a higher power.  The next paragraph would go over the people on the planes, who either chose to try and live by fighting back, or accepted their fate by sitting off to the side.  Then the last paragraph or two would go over the people who were volunteers, the people who volunteered not to help, and the ones made to help whether they liked it or not.

Throughout the body paragraphs, I am going to use other quotes from the same book that apply, because after looking up where the original quote came from and its context, it can really work in the situation.  I am also going to state Dr. Seuss' relationship to war, and how he used to be a political cartoonist specializing in world war two comedy.

The conclusion will be made up of the restatement of the thesis, coming out to be something similar to "9-11 and this quote remain relevant to each other through a strong literal meaning, and a hinted figurative meaning, which can be applied to everyone in the vicinity of the crash.  It will also mention the concept of destiny and the concept of moulding your own destiny, where I will probably end it asking what the reader thinks of fate after reading the artists statement.