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DC: A D.C. Gallery Takes On School Shootings With Art
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Eighteen wooden desktops, like the kind children use at school, hang from one wall of the H-Space gallery off U Street. The artist, Mònica Pagès, treated each one differently, like she would a child. She titled the piece “I Am Safe.”
“It presents to me the irony that this is what a child should be able to say of his school, and also what gun owners say as a reason of why they have guns,” she said. |
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PHORTO
(6/27/2019)
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How nice. I'll carry a photo of that display instead of my gun and throw it at any mugger who attacks me. |
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