This is why art is important, in case you were wondering.
And kids will be so productive if you make it a game. I bet at least 50% of the kids who met this sculpture went and intentionally hunted for litter to feed it.
The fur, the ears, the electricity coming off the shiny’s tail, the expression on the one up front and how perfectly it lends to the electricity coming off its cheeks… this is gorgeous.
See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.
And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.
So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.
REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))
Yup. Mom’s side of the family came in this way. Just…wrote their names down and that was that.
The link doesn’t work anymore, but for anyone curious: What is A Refugee is a book by William Maley, and you can find it on other sites (just don’t buy from Amazon, please) or ask in your library.
