This image was created by Abby Driscoll,
a senior at Fort Defiance High School,
after the school asked students to make art with the theme of "trauma."
Now members of the Augusta County School Board in Verona, Virginia have decided a new policy needs to be created after a
high school art student offended their sensibilities
by using her work to highlight faith-based bigotry.
The artist said this:; "This piece is representative of the idea that growing up queer
meant you couldn’t be saved by God.
I grew up in a religious background
and that influenced this project.
The idea of the glowing red cross is to represent evil in the eyes of God and the bleeding rainbow represents devotion vs identity.
Overall the piece gets across the message I want it to, even if it is a little in your face.
I wish I had made the rosary more detailed but I’m glad I spent most of my time in the hands and drips.
I think this was a successful piece and states what I want it to."
