Intolerance Destroys The Fabric of Americaa

Jenny Tran

I chose this piece as its interesting, especially as it has a very dark and mysterious element. This piece is called ‘Intolerance destroys the fabric of America’ the artist who created this is called Jennifer Tran; she's of American Vietnamese background. It's an image of the section of the American flag distorted in the centre, almost like the fabric are being worn out and the threads are falling apart and creating a hole. 

The theme of the artwork is dark and the artist is trying to give a very surreal image to communicate the seriousness of the theme of segregation and intolerance that occurs in modern America. The sentence which clearly projects what’s happening in the art works is being communicated through the way the fabric looks like it’s falling apart and how the words are incorporated and not clear for the viewer to read. I think the story behind the work is how a land can contain so many types of people and yet segregation and intolerance between each different people is so high in American communities. The whole art piece is based on the American flag that's slowly losing its threads and it's creating the flag to fall apart. The message is incorporated in the fabric of the flag, which is slowly falling apart in the centre, symbolising that it's deep in America where the problem is. The Flag is quite dark and dirty which suggest impurities in the American nation. The artist tries to communicate her opinions of America through this flag. I think the artist used an image editing program to create this piece, as it is has a modern and computerised effect, especially with how the cross hatching effect, which uses a written sentence in a small font size so create thin lines that gives the fabric falling apart effect.

‘Intolerance destroys the fabric of America’ is a modern artwork. I think it has influences of how in modern times, the American people have criticised its Government and their actions in international affairs. I think the artwork speaks for the opinions of the majority but it’s just another internal problem that is hard to resolve.