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Images: An Unbecoming Child: A (Per)Verse Growth Chart, Kevin Tavin Jan 2005

Images: An Unbecoming Child: A (Per)Verse Growth Chart, Kevin Tavin

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Within silhouettes of male and female figures, cut out in the space between two walls, are chemically transferred images from (Spectral traces of) photos in my life-adulthood to childhood. These are representations of d(evolved) (dis)solutions to the crisis between my / self and other(s). The growth chart is reversed and perverse with the marking and masking of my maleness/femaleness. It is (the) unbecoming of me.


Images: Unbecoming War: Becoming Witness And Scribe, Deborah Smith-Shank Jan 2005

Images: Unbecoming War: Becoming Witness And Scribe, Deborah Smith-Shank

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

My artwork, called Wargoddess: Shock&Awe, positions me as a Witness and a Scribe. I cut pictures of my family into small pieces and pasted these people I love without reservation around the goddess. I wrote and pasted words. I pasted the map of Iraq on her stomach and made Baghdad her belly button. As I worked, I wondered whose side god[dess] is on and why anyone could possibly think that s/he took sides.


Abu Ghraib: (Un)Becoming Photographs: How Can Art Educators Address Current Images From Visual Culture Perspectives?, Nancy Pauly Jan 2005

Abu Ghraib: (Un)Becoming Photographs: How Can Art Educators Address Current Images From Visual Culture Perspectives?, Nancy Pauly

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

On Friday, May 7, 2004 the front page of The New York Times contained two photographs and a headline: "From Picture of Pride to Symbol of Abuse" (Dao, 2004, p.1). In the top photograph Lynndie R. England appears in 2003, smiling, standing in a relaxed family setting, and wearing a blue" Authentic USA" hooded sweatshirt with red and white lettering. Until early May that photo had been displayed in the Mineral County West Virginia Courthouse with other photographs of local soldiers stationed in Iraq.