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Ruth Ewan, Pound Hand in the Jungle, screenprint on found page, 2009.
Ruth Ewan is based in London. Her work explores models of propaganda, opposition and protest often adopting the language and methods of persuasion in her own practice. Pound Hand in the Jungle is one of a series of screen prints made whilst recently on residency in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on to found Western illustrations depicting South America. The original image shows an illustration of wildlife in the Amazonian rainforest from a 1950s publication, The World We Live In. The contrasting image of the hand is appropriated from a cover illustration of The Fabian Society magazine. The Fabian Society is a left-wing think-tank, named after the Fabian Strategy of warfare, which favours processes of gradual reform and attrition rather than revolutionary means. The ambiguous image shows the British pound symbol, combined with a hand, perhaps a greeting or perhaps a stop sign. The 'stop' symbol could be read as a call to stop the destruction of the rainforest whilst the monetary symbol relates to the ecomonic value of natural resources found in the Amazon jungle. By working with popular forms of expression such as memorable songs or protest imagery, Ewan restages the circulation of ideologies...
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