Tower of Babel: Tree of Races
Tower of Babel: Tree of Races
2016
Inkjet print and pencil on paper
22.7 x 22 inches
The use of English sets the publication in either England or the United States, both key sites for the development of eugenical thinking and practice, especially the latter. America was the hotbed of Eugenics, the place the Germans went to for ideas and policies prior to Hitler's rule. I chose the "Tree of Races" because of its seemingly benign depiction of deeply harmful ideas. The use of yellow in the piece is meant to infer the actual toxic danger of those ideas.
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