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History Repeats Itself
2022Acrylic
Description
The recent spike in Asian hate crimes in America due to COVID had inspired this piece. Though this is seen as recent news, Asian hate is largely unknown in American Education. This piece contains a real image from WWII of a Chinese factory worker wearing a sign that reads “Me Chinese No Japanese Please,” as tensions between Japanese immigrants and Americans were at its peak. Though this racism took place many decades ago, history repeats itself, with Japanese, Filipino, and Vietnamese people all being reported beaten and killed in broad daylight for a disease that originated in China. I have modernized the image by putting it on a laptop and making the figure, myself, distraught with a mask on
Physical Dimensions
60" × 45"