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Jake Jolley Week 4


How do context and identity impact the form and meaning of these artistic projects?

 - The context and identity impact the forms of these projects by creating a new solid standing vision of not forgetting. Meaning further that These monuments help to represent the past, as well as to honor those that act as the subject of each. As spoken about in the Guardian article, these monuments not only show the past as well as the present and future, but what it has been built on, or rather who it was built on. These projects create an identity for the minorities and remind the greater population of the struggles faced, as well as struggles still at hand. 

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