Dioramas During the Pandemic (2020-2021)

Pandemic Park

Upon learning that COVID-19 prevented live attendance at Major League Baseball games.

pandemic park newest.jpeg
Description
WFFW3.jpg

World’s Fair, Fair World?

My father performed at the 1939-1940 World’s Fair. After a conversation with him when he turned 100, I created this diorama and a chapter for my new book, “In the Small Places: Teacher Changemakers and the Power of Human Agency.Read the chapter here.

Description
A broken ceramic plate with images of two Chinese soldiers in green uniforms and red star hats. The plate is mounted inside a black frame and shows cracks and missing parts. Below the plate, there is an open book with the title "XVI SERVING THE PEOPLE," a small red box with a picture of Mao Zedong, and a yellow object resembling a brain-shaped item.

Serve the Chairman

My incredible naïvete, sucked in as a radical, I thought Chairman Mao was cool, avuncular….the Great Helmsman. This piece is my reminder that ideology can be a cruel weapon. It inspired a bonus chapter from my new book, “In the Small Places: Teacher Changemakers and the Power of Human Agency.”

Read the Bonus Chapter