Visual Fluency

1. Which question you chose, and how you think this exemplifies or responds to the project prompt as a metaphor, synecdoche or metonymy, or if it addresses all.

I choose to work from the synecdoche prompt. I think that my works responds to the prompt by way of which I used the collaging of symbolic images to address historic and current events regarding American education systems. In this project I used images in a part to whole relationship to narrate how these institutions of privilege perpetuate "whiteness" through assimilation tactics which ultimately strip people of color from their cultures in order to be successful in American society. 2. Discuss three of your visual choices with respect to how you think they relate to the given convention. In other words why did you make those choices? and why do you think ( or hope ) that they visually communicate what they do.

One, I choose a photo of a large boarding school population to demonstrate the mass amount of natives who attended boarding schools or are descendants of them. I use this photo as the bottom background image to symbolize that institutions are built off and continuously benefit from the assimilation and genocide of the aboriginal people of this land. Two, I choose the factories to address our capitalist society and how above all else, assimilation is continued as a way to maintain hegemony. Further, the smoke coming from the factories in part represents how natives traditionally talk to our ancestors through smoke or the burning of something (usually a traditional plant). The smoke from the factories is supposed to demonstrate a distance from tradition due to assimilation, but remaining connected despite the circumstances. Three, I chose to include the black hills before and after the carving of Mount Rushmore to stand for how American education is often blind to cultural significance of places or practices that are not tangible or profitable. 3. What was the most difficult thing about creating your project? please elaborate. was there anything you wish you had done differently?

For me I think the most difficult part was just getting used to photoshop. The lecture in class about formulating ideas into a project was very helpful. However, I still feel like I am struggle with using images I find online and calling it my own. 4. Citations and image source credit/ links portion. ( this can be under your image or at the end of your analysis.

Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center. (n.d.). Photo from about 1900 shows pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Indian Country Today . Retrieved from https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/we-wont-forget-the-children.

Industrial Factory. (2019). The Live Traderoom. Retrieved from https://thelivetraderoom.com/usdjpy-and-nzdusd-in-a-countertrend-move/.

Lester, W. (2021). The Sherman Indian School Cemetery in Riverside as seen on Friday, July 2, 2021. The Press Enterprise . Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG. Retrieved from https://www.pe.com/2021/07/04/federal-probe-of-american-indian-boarding-schools-reflects-dark-chapter-in-u-s-history/.

Melcon, M. (2013). Shaking Hands, Commencement Ceremony . LA Times . Retrieved from https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-19-la-me-handshakes-20130620-story.html.

Public Domain/ News Dogs Media . (n.d.). Young Native American Thomas Moore, before and after assimilation, circa 1897. The Sun . Retrieved from https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3646248/pictures-native-indians-before-after-assimilated-carlisle/.

Schultze, L. (2019). Steam and exhaust rise from a chemical company and a coking plant in Oberhausen, Germany. WBUR. Getty Images. Retrieved from https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2019/07/GettyImages-631092060.jpg.

Six Grandfathers. (n.d.). Indian Country Today . Retrieved from https://indiancountrytoday.com/.image/t_share/MTU4NDEyNTQzOTE2ODQ0NTAx/mount-rushmore-before.jpg.

Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. (2020). Mount Rushmore. AXIOS. Retrieved from https://www.axios.com/trump-mt-rushmore-native-americans-0ccf4341-cf2e-4b25-b4c2-06f9933643ff.html.

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