Eva Mays

Eva Mays is an artist, clinical social worker, and member of the Compton Artist Alliance. Gaining inspiration from an image, color pallet, various themes, and the modern interpretation of diverse forms of art, she likes to create bold pieces. As an artist with clinical training as a psychotherapist, she emphasizes the process through which her works are created, as much as the content and energy that is also created. Though artistic and meditative play, Eva has developed a technique to create multimedia paintings with deep texture, rich color, and brilliant shine. “Blanche 2017” is an abstract concept of the deep current of dark emotions that run through the multilayered characters of A Streetcar Named Desire. This modern adaptation of the Tennessee William’s production highlights themes of hypocrisy, rage, madness, judgment, shame, and despair. The political climate in 2017 ushered in a tidal wave of these same themes and provoked hatred and rage in diff erent forms from of all United States Citizens. “Blanche 2017” embodies this energetic expression and this passing year complements the tone of the messages within the play.