Intention

I follow Human's of New York (HONY) on Facebook and recently the owner of the page (Brandon) traveled to countries in Europe to share the stories of refugees fleeing their countries. These stories hit me pretty hard.  I have also seen some posts about these refugees by 'popular pages' on Facebook commenting about what they think America and Europe should be doing, and what they really think of those fleeing their countries. Some of these posts really appalled me. Thus, I wanted to borrow two contrasting images in order to challenge those that think in line with the terrible posts and comments that I saw to (see if they're able to) think with compassion and feel empathy.

Process and Context

I stated earlier that these disgusting posts and comments (on memes and cartoons) were posted by 'popular pages'. These popular pages were actually the public profiles for some political leaders, most notably Allen West. Thus, I wanted to do something similar to some other political artwork. So I did some research as to what some political artwork looked like and conveyed. While I didn't imitate the style of the art, I like how they clearly had a message behind them and some of them had opposing viewpoints forcing the audience to really think about what their opinion on the matter is.