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Floodlights

The Politics of Remembrance in a Country That Writes in Bullets

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Taylor Allyn
Sep 11, 2025
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A stark black-and-white image of a man’s face with mouth wide open. Instead of a throat, a bright industrial floodlight shines outward, beams of light radiating past his teeth. The image evokes speech as illumination and the mouth as both witness and weapon.
When America chooses who to sanctify and who to erase, memory itself becomes a weapon. The mouth is a spotlight; the voice a risk. Pain is pain. Memory is selective. (UNSPUN Digital Image, September …
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