This ceramic appears to show children happily playing, but look closely and you see the darkness of the background (note, for instance, the house inscribed with swastikas). For more, take a look at Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire, here.
These large tapestries, Posh Cloths, by Grayson Perry at Victoria Milo, in London were eye-opening. I think the designs are made on a computer using graphics software, then translated to looms that weave the actual tapestry. Note the way text is woven into the images, especially in the map-like tapestries below. A definite inspiration for the text-based work I want to do on inequality. Click into any of the groups of images to see all the pictures in that group enlarged.
