A strange one

[beth]

A week or so ago, I changed out the writing trigger to a painting by Lily Furedi called Subway 1934.  It's a great "trigger" because it's well populated by a variety of people in a common setting ... nothing to connect any of them to one another.  

Last night, I thought I'd like to know a little more about Furedi and did a google search.  One page that turned up was very unexpected and had me checking my memory banks to see whether I'd ever heard of the content before.  As far as I know, I have not.  

It uses this painting as an example of how people in the arts added a symbol in their work to signal they were aware of something called the American WPA Holocaust, which supposedly connected the stock market crash, the depression, the dust bowl events, and exodus, with the pennies on the dollar buy up and outright theft of land that held rich oil deposits underneath.  

Here's a link to the WPA Holocaust page ... but first, a copy of the painting.  Look at the painting  and see whether you see anything that would qualify as a symbol.  Then, read the article.  

I'd love to hear comments, especially anything you might have heard about this before, because it's totally new ground for me.





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[Jessiealan]

I am intrigued. I have never heard of this either.

Apparently, the little ceiling fan in the subway is supposed to be a secret symbol of a skull and crossbones. I have not ridden the subway for many years. Do they actually have fans on the ceiling of the cars?

[beth]

Thank you for taking a look, Jessie.

Yes, strange indeed. Because we now know what caused the dust bowl tragedies, it doesn't seem very important, but at one time it must have been for a number of folks to the point there was that kind of speculation.