CARAPACE OF THE DIVAS
CARAPACE - noun \ker-e- pas, ka-ra-\ a protective, decorative, or disguising shell.
We all carry around with us our own carapace. Some are hard and thick like a tortoise; others more yielding and decorative. But they all serve the same purpose: to protect or disguise, to camouflage, or to give prominence, status, sometimes fearlessness.
The Carapace of the Divas illustrates certain truths in all its outlandish, disturbing, humorous, provocative imagery of humanity juxtaposed against the "decoration" of the Drag Queen. She carries the most fabulous carapace of them all, but no less related to those of the humble ice-cream vendor; the conservative flag waving businessman; the preacher; the follower of Islam, or the tree trimmer. These ordinary persons do ordinary things beyond the carapace they reveal to the public, just as do the Drag Queens.
