Friday, December 21, 2007
remaking history
I understand the importance and problem with inciting a critical gaze. I know that people only like to look at pretty things, or shiny things or colorful things. I dig that, I do it too. So I thought I'd share with you one of the hapless benefits of having to post pictures as representation. I was asked to choose images for the cover of a department manual. Imagine my shock when my boss was so flexible, careless even, about giving me such a heavy task.
Uhm... wtf. So... I'm gunna say that the pictures above are from the Civil War or they're just other images corresponding to European/Western events in white peoples' history. There's a fucking picture of U.S. currency with a fuckin American flag on it. If this is history as of 2007-2008, then I'm going to change it.
Here is last year's cover (I didn't make it):
So I was like EFF THAT! Here's my cover!
(left to right, top to bottom)
#1: a political cartoon found in one of my favorite books, The Forbidden Book, "Kill Everyone Over 10"
#2: 1989: a lone protester in China's Tiananmen Square stopping the People's Liberation Army
#3: a march for the Women's Suffrage Movement
#4: an "upside-down" map of the world
#5: 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington
#6: the real/forgotten founding fathers - Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Red Cloud
There are problems with the events I've chosen, too. I know. I just wanted to re-focus and perhaps get at beginning to remove the colorblind lens that people use when they think about history.
Yes, world, I am going to change history.
x_magsalita.
// posted by Janice @ 10:02 PM 
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