A Justice Site
Believe It. Own It. Series 1
Section 2: Conflicting Nation-State Values
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: October 19, 2006
Latest Update: October 26, 2006
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu
- Christian love and caring versus the fright reaction of seeking safety and security.
Icons and Ideology: Fish or Bomb?
By Juliette Peat, CSUDH.Icon and Ideology: Fish as Icon of Christian Peace and Love. Hiroshima and Nagasaaki Bombs as Icon of Atomic Destruction. The ideology of Christian (spiritual and/or religious) love faces the ideology of fear and power as protection of self and one's own. Love and Fear.
The use of this image as a card or bookmark, whatever, serves for our students as a stimulus for conversation with others on the icons and ideology that represent our current dilemmas of peace, love, violence, war.
- Working at message building for visual and discourse communication.
Framing the Message with Words and Icons
Model by jeanne.Used to stimulate students' ideas. Emphasis on texture created by printed paper, stamps. Emphasis on color by adding color blocks and coordinating text with images. Emphasis on form by using a manila folder model of fish used in a variety of textures, colors, sizes, and positions. Although we are making public art for free distribution to the public, we offer examples of and discuss fine art techniques to create the feelings we want to express. We also provide many of the materials, class activity time, and sharing of our collaborative and individual efforts.
- Fish icon comparison to iconology of bombs.
The emphasis on icons like that of the fish or bomb, helps students recognize the extent to which images are open to very different interpretations depending on the culture and the ethos of the context. To that end, and because our emphasis is community-building as it pertains to governance discourse, we have found it very useful to use very simple units like the fish or the triangle. By grouping them to express different issues and perspectives, by adding texture, color, and a little form, the students' work attains a polished and disciplined look. We're not trying to recapture thirdd grade art projects, but offer our adults skills that enhance the joy of amateur art making and develop their appreciation of fine art as an element of political and social policy development and dissemination. (The Art of Engagement By Peter Selz. UC Press. 2006.)
- Incorporating icons into conceptual, or storytelling, images.
OOPS !
By Patricia Aconé, CSUDH, and jeanne.
Printer's proof, made at Gallery 825 workshop, under Xavier Fumat. Gemini Gel printmaker.
Pat's conception of some of the fears engendered by her value differences with the present administration. This was a collaborative print, in which the copper plate was dry etched at a table outside the Grab 'n Go at CSUDH. We encourage collaborative work that encourages discourse on the issues as we work. Pat's primary concern here is the administration's vision of the necessity of war as opposed to peace and concern for the Other. Including the accidentally dropped fish suggests that she fears that one who does not share her values of preservign life and the earth on which it thrives is a dangerous venture that could lead to nuclear disaster.
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Onelia's Water for All
Onelia's Water for All
Believe It. Own It. Series 1Inside of Onelia's fish card:
Even the Fish as Part of the Whole Ecology
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Love Listens in Good Faith
And this is the only way we'll ever listen to each other. jeanne
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The Iconology of Ideology
Believe It. Own It. Series 1You'll find all the components of this piece on Instructions for Fish/Bomb Card No. 2. You can add and subtract pieces as you wish, size them as you wish, color them as you wish, texturize them with newspapers, stamps, sharpies, whatever. Notice how iconology permeates our culture. Be aware of the visual. Share iconology and ideology as one of the skills of community-building you are learning
This work doesn't go in the catalog. It goes in the instructional manual. It's one of the cards I chose for interactive discourse at the exhibit. jeanne
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Naoko Takeuchi's Flag Piece for the Exhibit
Superman Holding Up the Flag. YES.
Believe It. Own It. Series 1
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Onelia's Water for All
Onelia's Water for All
Believe It. Own It. Series 1Inside of Onelia's fish card:
Even the Fish as Part of the Whole Ecology
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Yvonne's Version of Our Flag
Yvonne Ramirez' Version of Our Flag
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News Visuals of Culture
Robert Neubecker for the LA Times.News Visuals of Culture
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from the Los Angles Times, Sunday, October 22, 2006.This piece doesn't belong in the catalog, but in the instructional manual. It's not ours. It's Robert Neubecker's work for the LA. Times. jeanne
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Onelia's Triangle Piece for the Exhibit
Onelia's Triangles
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Onelia's Triangle Piece for the Exhibit
Onelia's Triangles
Believe It. Own It. Series 1Note the difference placement makes, and the difference made by deepening the blacks. jeanne
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Onelia's Professionals Piece for the Exhibit
Onelia's Professionals
Believe It. Own It. Series 1If you're going to do the text in handwriting, try using some of the fancy stuff I put in the word, "professionals." That will gloss over minor inconsistencies you can't get by hand. jeanne
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Taking Just What You Need
Technology's False Needs
Believe It. Own It. Series 1See Surfing For Life. My need to draw what I was seeing is what I call the "making of art," not as a commodity, not as a museum piece, but as a guide to seeing, to expressing that which remains unarticulated. When I started to draw, I had nothing particular in mind. But as I added the spear in the Paint program, I realized that I needed more triangles, more spears. And as I continued to add more less obtrusive triangles, I realized that this drawing meant to me the dangers we face when technology becomes more than a tool and takes over our humanity.(American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn By Hans (EDT) Achterhuis.)
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The Luxor's Pyramid
The Luxor's Pyramid
from which I took the inspiration for our pyramid box. jeanne
Pyramid Box Instructions
