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Cuba Street- the Political Campaign






















A Political campaigner carrying a small child or a tray of ready made frozen bullets retailed at $14.99. Who wins your vote?

The thought of what’s now culturally sensitive and insensitive in this modern world can still be viewed through a conservative viewpoint. How we interpret its aura through its visual language is determined by what has been hammered into us as socially acceptable. Regardless of whether we symbolize a child being carried as a ‘pure’ thought or frozen ice bullets as ‘impure’ our initial opinions and feelings fall under that social code.

Perhaps we have only touched on what it is to be ‘culturally rich’ and base our ideals on the thought that in order to look forward you must look back.


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