Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageThe artwork weaponizes the familiar Uncle Sam image to expose ICE’s rebranding effort as coercive state theater. By placing the recruitment message within a soft, floral frame, it underscores the dissonance between the agency’s aggressive, multi-million-dollar recruitment campaign push for officers under Trump’s mass-deportation agenda and the human cost it obscures. The work reads as a quiet indictment of militarized domestic policy.
- Collections: What Remains
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