Gun in America

Janice

Professor Noriega

Digital Media Foundations

May 10, 2020

Guns in America

The Brooklyn Museum is located in Brooklyn, New York. It is New York City’s third-largest Museum holding roughly around 1.5 million worth of work. One of the eye-catching artworks would be JR: Chronicles collection presented on the main floor. JR: Chronicles is a work of art that intersects with photography, social engagement, and street art. Gun in America is one of the pieces that shows one of the major problems in America.

JR, a French artist who is known for his mural photographs. He is spreading his words through photographs exposing minorities that are often forgotten. JR uses his creative skills to help people who don’t have a voice, giving them the chance to be heard. One of his first major exhibition in North American is the JR: Chronicles, located in the Brooklyn Museum. He collaborates with communities to create his monument at work in public.

Gun in America was in 2018 for Time Magazine about gun control. It is a black and white artwork showing 245 people including gun collectors, hunters, law enforcement officers, shooting victims, doctors and nurses, and gun lobbyists. They were in a room sharing their individual views and own stories with guns and how guns have affected their lives. These people want to come up with a common effect on handling guns in America because guns had been a major problem in the US for a while.

The composition of Gun in America shows anti-guns on the left and pro-guns on the left, and press conference in the middle giving the audience a chance to participate with the mural. The image is divided in half so that both sides are weighed out evenly allowing them to debate. Towards the back, you have people wearing a t-shirt saying “Black lives matter” allowing the audience to understand racism is still going on. At the corner of the magazine, you have the American flag represent freedom in American and also the prominent with guns.

Guns in America capture two sides auguring what is the best way handle with guns. The image is divided in half showing pro-guns and anti-guns allowing the viewers to understand both sides of the story. The quality of this show is an extremely eye-opening experience knowing that it’s the lives that matter. Mural allows you to make personal connections to one or the other sides because you can hear them; it also allows you to move the eyes around to giving you a sense of the environment. The environment in the photograph shows how prominent the issue with guns in America; how gun affects many people and how it different people have a different experience.

This artwork, Guns in America allows people on both sides of the story to come together and hear each other out on a sensitive American subject. It presents how guns have affected everyone’s lives on both sides. Guns in America allow the audience to realize how big of a problem and important it is in the US. JR created this piece mural inviting people to learn about their experience with gun; it is an important piece for society.