Icecream vs AR-15
Oct. 30th, 2013 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneA week or so before finals at my uni they have a student art show, and me being in the photography program I've frequently had prints in it. Spring was my last show for having my material as the video production class was the last actual production class that I could take, now I'm doing an internship with the local newspaper and next semester will be a portfolio class, so I'm pretty much done.
Spring's art show had an interesting piece. It was a composition in Photoshop that featured an AR-15 and a slogan along the lines of 'Consider your Man Card re-issued'. I find it offensive on several levels. Yet I have to walk past it every time I go to the lab to scan negatives.
Conveniently and fortunately on the wall opposite it is a painting of three ice cream cones. So when I go down the hall it's 'Eyes left!' and pleasantness prevails.
I have no problem at all with responsible gun ownership, but the basic message of this print was that you're not a man if you don't own an AR. I refuse to subscribe to such a message, nothing that I own defines me for who I am.
At least they'll be taking down last semester's art in a couple of weeks to prep for the next show.
Spring's art show had an interesting piece. It was a composition in Photoshop that featured an AR-15 and a slogan along the lines of 'Consider your Man Card re-issued'. I find it offensive on several levels. Yet I have to walk past it every time I go to the lab to scan negatives.
Conveniently and fortunately on the wall opposite it is a painting of three ice cream cones. So when I go down the hall it's 'Eyes left!' and pleasantness prevails.
I have no problem at all with responsible gun ownership, but the basic message of this print was that you're not a man if you don't own an AR. I refuse to subscribe to such a message, nothing that I own defines me for who I am.
At least they'll be taking down last semester's art in a couple of weeks to prep for the next show.
