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Protest Signs An Artist’s Statement

and What They I wanted to capture this fighting spirit as opposed to hiya
Can Look Like
(translating to shyness or shame, hiya is a concept
(Intro Originally similar to honor in other Asian cultures. In broader
from Poster House) cases, people do not speak out when there is wrong
doing out of fear of losing face amongst peers), all
In 2019, Poster House opened its first
show sourced entirely from the through design. Whatkeeps coming up
museum’s permanent collection called throughout my studies is the power of the
“20/20 InSight: Poster from the 2017 poster and what that can possibly look like
Women’s March.” It looks at the unique
ways Americans protest,emphasizing that today. In efforts to bring back the
protesting is part of American culture and multifunctional purposes of abanikos, I
is an essential expression of our have implemented the type face typically
constitutional rights.
seen on Jeepney’s (made free and
The posters in the collection span the accessible by designer Aaron Amar)
subjects of Women’s Rights, Climate Change,
Immigration, LGBTQ+ Issues, and, of course, throughout the islands, calling
#BlackLivesMatter. The incorporated graphics and awareness to different issues here and
poster images have been carried through genera-
tions of marches, rallies, and grassroots action. eventually abroad.
Today’s demonstrators also display symbols from poster
history, borrowing the power of past ideology while crafting Abanikos (from the Spanish word
new meanings. for fan, abanico) are these clover

shaped fans weaved from palm
leaves (called buri). Not only do they
provide cooling relief, but according

to “The Filipino Martial Arts as
Taught by Dan Inosanto” (citation

needed), during the almost 400
years Spain had colonized The Philippines,

Spaniards stripped the
indigenous people of their language
in efforts to break their spirits. However, some
found a way to practice in secret by writing on their
clothes and abanikos under the guise of decoration.

Additionally “abaniko” is a technical maneuver as

part of the nation’s martial arts known as Kali, Eskrima

and/or Arnis (one of the martial arts Dan Inosanto is an authority on).

Resources:

https://posterhouse.org/special-project/posters-in-protest/