(Wehde).
Sift through the images to the right, considering these questions for each image:
What can this material be used to make?
Who might own or control this material?
Who needs this material? Why?
Can this material be repurposed into something unexpected?
Take a moment to reflect on your thoughts. Is it difficult to associate meaning with arbitrary photos of materials? Why or why not?
As the introductory activity suggests, material holds meaning and power beyond its mere physicality. In order to asses the relationship between material, space, and resistance, we will use historical research and visuals to investigate literary texts by Cuban authors María Irene Fornés and Antonio José Ponte.