Putting Amache on the Map
摘要
In addition to the unsigned naval posters and community commissions, the Shop workers produced a small set of works, signed with some variation of the collective signature, “The Silk Screen Shop at Amache.” The workers funded, designed, and produced these materials on their own time. These were the only works that included marks of authorship, and they appear to have been intended as “souvenirs”—objects that would remind the owner of the Amache community and the circumstances of incarceration. Through humor and irony, subtle subversion of design conventions, and a developing iconography of incarceration, including barbed wire and the guard towers, the images contained the possibilities of multiple interpretations. This chapter explores the key themes of collective agency as enabling an iconography of resistance, and the role of a souvenir as a mnemonic device of negative, as well as positive, memories.