Re-Learn You ABCs
Artist John Jota Leaños recontextualizes our good’ol ABC song to today’s dark realities. In a time when it’s hard for anyone to live in ignorant bliss of the amount of conflict and death that humanity has brought upon itself, a recontextualization of one of the first songs that we learn as children in the United States is all too appropriate. Afterall, the learning of language should be linked to a global consciousness embedded in historical realities.
Leaños employs Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration along with sardonic humor to reconsider recent and historical deaths, so many unnecessary deaths:
http://leanos.net/ABC.html