The following questions facilitate dialogue about different cultural meaning systems and the sources of the meanings that we assume others perceive, and they also help to expose oppressive meanings or damaging stereotypes. PALIMPSEST TRACES: To explode commonly held beliefs from a broad range of viewpoints, research and discussion are important. Consider: “What are some contemporary meanings encoded in the cultural artifact that you selected?”
Take a photograph of the object, or select an image from a magazine or an online source.
PROCESS: Start with the familiar, and identify a significant cultural artifact. (4) To “decode” and “encode” the symbols that dominate society. (3) To analyze media, advertisements, photographs, alternative media, objects, spaces, places, signs and codes as sources of power. (2) To explore issues of power and privilege and its various forms in visual culture. (1) To investigate visual culture as a means of communicating and perpetuating cultural values, including the ways in which visual culture affects perception of self and the world. What does the spoon signify in relation to the shells and text fragments and other items in the box assemblages? Stein uses spoons and shells in the box sculptures as metaphors for power and vulnerability. Look again at each work in the Spoon to Shell Series. The Identity Exploration with Cultural Artifacts encounter, with the Spoon to Shell Series, begins with a discussion, while looking at the art, with others whose social class, age, gender, sexuality, and ethnic background differs from one’s own. Our deep-seated understanding of power affects how we relate to images, objects, and people. Each type of power utilizes different types of images and different strategies to impact human behavior and societal practices.
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