Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageMore than any previous president, Donald Trump has used pardon power to reward loyalists, signal protection to allies, and reduce legal pressure on associates to testify against him.
The “Get Out of Jail Free” card becomes a loaded symbol, linking the trivialization of incarceration in Monopoly to broader systems of privilege, immunity, and uneven justice. It evokes escape and complicity within a legal system shaped by power.
Set against gold polka dots and a pink decorative field, the image frames luxury and frivolity as surface language for systemic inequity, where decorum masks structural imbalance.
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