While reading Roberta Uno’s “Steps Toward a New World” I kept going back
to my sensibilities as an actor and the tools and words I use to
describe being the best actor your could be. With each chapter in the
excerpt, I was reminded of the power in trusting the piece, the art,
having it stand as the impetus for its creation. Telling a story can be
difficult if personal experiences and biases get mixed together. Roberta
creates a kind of theater for the new world through her story telling.
She understands the significance of what she is making in its specific
moment in time, thinking about its effects that it leaves on people. Her
work she writes about tends to have a strong sense of identity whatever
that may be.
While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...
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