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Title: Loving v. Virginia
Description: In 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously voted to dismantle all state laws prohibiting intermarriage, overriding legal restrictions based on race written in 1883. In this block, created by studio assistant Leina’ala Voss, the first page of the Loving v. Virginia court transcript serves as a partial background on which two rings and a set of keys have been arranged; these objects symbolize the bond of marriage and evoke the feeling of a shared home. To the left of the court transcript the artist has placed a net, surrounded by metal nails, buttons, and fragments of colored flowers. Beneath the netting the words “race mixing is communism” appear as a headline above an image of a white protester, his face concealed behind dark sunglasses. This image is juxtaposed against a photograph which shows laughing children and their parents, innocent and unbothered by the chaos which surrounds them. By placing symbolic objects representative of marriage and domesticity alongside a supreme court document and Loving v. Virginia protest imagery, this block depicts how love itself has become a highly politicized issue defenseless against the noxious gass of racism and hatred. This block also reminds the viewer that even today we must not take our rings and keys, and the people we love, for granted; for there once was a time when even the love we feel for our family was unlawful in the eyes of our constitution.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25516

Title: Men on a road in China
Description: Photograph of three men standing on a dirt road in China.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17405

Title: Men with broken-down car in China
Description: Photograph of an early-20th-century car with a flat tire.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17390

Title: Pagoda statue outside a Chinese temple
Description: Photograph of a tall, pagoda-shaped structure in front of a larger temple.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17400

Title: Side of a Chinese temple
Description: Photograph of the side of a temple in China.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17402

Title: Small Chinese temple
Description: Photograph of a structure on the grounds of a Chinese temple.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17399

Title: Small religious structure in China
Description: Photograph of a roadside wooden structure, elaborately carved with a stone tablet in the middle under a roof.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17410

Title: Small shrines in China
Description: Photograph of ten small stone shrines at the base of a mountain.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17409

Title: Stone outcrop in China
Description: Photograph of a rock outcropping in the middle of a forested mountain range in China.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17408

Title: Temple in China
Description: Photograph of a temple and possibly a shrine in China.
Date Created: 1924
PID: grinnell:17393