The Promise, 1990
Dimensions:
Window installation, dimensions variable
Media:
Painted flag, fan, lights, acrylic and silkscreen on glass window
Description:
The Promise is a window installation that was shown at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, and then at the Broadway Spring Center as part of the Los Angeles Festival's Open Festival. The piece is about immigration, and the replacing of the parent language and culture with the new language/culture. In the piece, a black and white painting of an American flag is hung in a store window, as though on display to be bought. On the window are handwritten translations of the Pledge of Allegiance into various languages. Overlaying the handwritten text, in effect crossing it out, is silk-screened the Pledge of Allegiance in English.
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