Several artistic choices were made throughout the comic. First, the character Who is a …show more content…
Next, color is used as a strong identifier, light green portrays the ‘Us’, and the past. Therefore, the character Who is green, for they are not a specific person or gender but an idea that we chose to critique. Red portrays ‘Them’, and the current day issues the cultures are facing.
The story begins in Singapore, where the foundations of control began with colonialism. In the 1800’s to the 1950’s, with influence from the West, Singapore built mental asylums, “usually situated far from the cities and towns, out of sight and often out of the minds of healthcare systems” (Mascayano, 2016). This theory of isolation is born out of many psychologists of the 19th century. Specifically, one can draw interest from French Psychologist Henry Moreau in 1843 when he states that "civilization would favour the development of nervous afflictions, ‘because it