Party with Trump
I moved to Providence from San Francisco in 2016 for my MFA at RISD during the build up towards the presidential election. Coming from a very liberal city and a blue state, I didn’t realize the political climate of the midwest and what was happening outside of the Bay Area. As I was driving across the country, I started seeing Trump bumper stickers and signs. Even in Providence I would often pull up behind cars with Trump bumper stickers. On the drive across the country, I chuckled in the beginning whenever I saw these stickers. The further I drove towards middle America, the more I realized that it wasn’t humorous. People were serious about voting for Trump. Once I started my program at RISD, I was so sure that Trump would lose, however the result was the opposite. Caught up in that political upheaval, I came up with this piece to express how something so absurd to be taken seriously at first can turn out to be something so devastating.
I moved to Providence from San Francisco in 2016 for my MFA at RISD during the build up towards the presidential election. Coming from a very liberal city and a blue state, I didn’t realize the political climate of the midwest and what was happening outside of the Bay Area. As I was driving across the country, I started seeing Trump bumper stickers and signs. Even in Providence I would often pull up behind cars with Trump bumper stickers. On the drive across the country, I chuckled in the beginning whenever I saw these stickers. The further I drove towards middle America, the more I realized that it wasn’t humorous. People were serious about voting for Trump. Once I started my program at RISD, I was so sure that Trump would lose, however the result was the opposite. Caught up in that political upheaval, I came up with this piece to express how something so absurd to be taken seriously at first can turn out to be something so devastating.
