A museum is designed to inform and enlighten. Museum exhibits can empower and evoke. Have you ever attended a museum that featured several placards bearing the words “don’t step on bone”? Until yesterday I hadn’t. The killing fields here in Cambodia still possess the horrors effected by the Khmer Rouge during the 1970’s. Victims clothing…
Month: May 2019
Hammer & Sickle and the Swastika; Equally Evil? Communist Mao Zedong Case Study
Shanghai, China, February 2019. Communist Mao Zedong case study begins. Distinctive and yet disparate; the two symbols of the swastika and the hammer and sickle. Each symbol stands across the 20th century like a colossus and each symbol evokes incredibly contrasting nuances. Interestingly I’m writing this piece in a rooftop bar of a hostel in…