It was only a week and a half ago that I saw Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Theater Banshee (which was a great show by the way, check out my thoughts on it by linking on the link at left), and things keep popping up in my reading and life that remind me of the show and of Wilde himself. Today, I found a link the Huffington Post Arts and Culture (@HuffPostArts) tweeted. It is an article about Ryan McArthur, a graphic design artist who took well known phrases and quotes, and turned them into minimalist designs. My favorite is this one, for obvious reasons:
So much of "Earnest" is about identity; searching for it, trying to make it better, hoping it is good enough to be accepted by others. Wilde himself had an identity crisis of sorts, after being thrown in prison for gross indecency with other men. Once released, he left Britain, wrote darker, more philosophical work, and eventually died, poor and probably quite lonely.
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