Dinner and a Movie

 

Justice Will Come Around

Various Objects and Materials 

Inspired by the movie Murder on the Orient Express

I wanted to explore the themes of a broken idea of justice, racial injustice in the 1930s, and the effect that murder can have on a group of people. The decorated and shattered plate represents two important things. The first thing the plate represents is the shattered idea of what justice can be. How justice is not, and likely never will be, black and white. Similarly, the shattered plate also represents how a group of people and their lives can be shattered by one tragic event like murder. The knives tie into the effect that tragic events have on people. It has been seen many times that tragic events can lead good people to do bad things. The knives are pointed inward as if threatening the remaining ideas of justice and polite refined society. Similarly, the singular black knife represents the ever-present theme of racial injustice during the 1930s. The spotlight that is on the knife further focuses on how the world was unjust during this time period. Through this piece, I hope to further draw importance on how traumatic events affect people as well as the racial injustices of the past.