Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2020

WOMEN'S BURDEN

 

Okay, I found something. Toward the side of downtown there is a building called the Soldiers' Memorial. It was built after World War I and extensively rehabbed in the last few years. The entrance to the museum is flanked by four monumental statues, a strong, solid person holding the bridle of a muscle-bound Pegasus. (They always remind me of the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales.) The first three represent courage, vision and virtue. This one is a woman holding an infant. Who has to make the sacrifices? Combatants are mostly male, the ones being shot at. But who is behind the lines, carrying all the other burdens?      

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

STL DPB In New York - Attitudes Toward Women


The first photo is underneath the southern end of the Highline, next to the Whitney. Click here for the reference.  The pair of billboards was next  to our hotel in Long Island City. The last is a building overlooking the Highline.

I will leave it to you, reader, to interpret these.