The New Shape of Things: Our Social Media Roundup

Two months into the Trump era, disorientation is giving way to new patterns, shapes and colors. Edges are harder. Surfaces are rougher. If green reflected the the Obama period, paint today red. Or, a dark shade of red, white and blue. Or just dark and dim. Protesters, having migrated to DC after having been evicted from Standing Rock, are making their own triangular punctuations in the landscape. The rectangular tombstone evokes religious desecration — as well as the looming threat to a free press. A venn diagram on International Women’s Day illustrates women at the heart of “all others.” And Nick Oza’s photo of long, straight-necked ostriches juxtaposed with the American flag, is as good a commentary on America’s myopia as a thousand lemmings.

Besides ongoing #DAPL and indigenous battles, speaks to DC as ever more tribal. @GettyImages @abcnews #standingrock pic.twitter.com/8pYdZy9Mre

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) March 12, 2017

Visual metaphor of the week. Lady Liberty goes dark Tuesday after technical snafu (and #MuslimBan2). 📷@AP @CNN pix of week pic.twitter.com/4BKbcHv86p

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) March 10, 2017

The color of our times.

Beijing @reuterspictures; DC
Susan Walsh @AP_Images pic.twitter.com/FcfUtRvMGK

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) March 10, 2017

Arresting metaphors in front of Trump Tower: Red, white & blue. #InternationalWomensDay #MuslimBan 📷@TimothyAClary @AFPphoto pic.twitter.com/5qwliq8ZWh

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) March 8, 2017

Guilt complex.

America’s Warriors by @georgewbush @thebushcenter @dallasnews 📸@weatherfox pic.twitter.com/c20WwFVBH4

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) March 11, 2017

Prayers, closed eyes are telling: Japanese pause for 6th anniversary of crisis no one wants to face. #Fukushima 📷@Reuterspictures #energy pic.twitter.com/Bbu2OusFKQ

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) March 14, 2017

Nucleus.⠀ ⠀ Reposting @guardian:⠀ …⠀ “”At a challenging moment in our history, let us remind ourselves that we the hundreds of thousands, the millions of women, trans-people, men and youth who are here at the Women’s March, we represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent the dying cultures of racism, hetero-patriarchy from rising again” – Civil rights activist Angela Davis during her Women’s March speech earlier this year.⠀ Illustration: @mona_chalabi”

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Mar 8, 2017 at 12:43pm PST

The answer to who’s beneath the otherwise not-so-big hand. Reposting @markpetersonpixs:⠀ …⠀ “Politics in Black and White… Special Assistant to the President Steve Bannon listening to President Donald Trump talk at CPAC… on assignment for @time and @timelightbox at #cpac2017 #politicaltheatre #trump #america #bannon”

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Feb 25, 2017 at 12:58pm PST

Art imitates life? Or life imitates art? @katieirwin__ … Repost @markmakela You just can’t make this up. A press interview occurs behind a vandalized tombstone with a surname of “Press”. More than 100 gravestones were damaged yesterday. #gettyimagesnews @gettyimages markmakelaphotojournalism #slideshow#documentaryphotography #streetphotography#documentary #follow #instadaily #instamood#reportage #everydayeverywhere #everydayusa#everydayphiladelphia #igers_philly #Pennsylvania#bnw #bw #monochrome

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Mar 1, 2017 at 10:20am PST

Given Oza’s coverage of American politics, Arizona and the border on other days, this innocent (and “Old Glorious”) wildlife shot is all too suggestive. ⠀ ⠀ Reposting @nickoza:⠀ …⠀ “Ostriches long part of Chandler history. #onassignment #streetphotography #igersphx #festival #ostrich #wildlife #color #animalrights #streetportrait @azcentral #instagramaz #oldglory #americanflag

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Mar 15, 2017 at 8:44pm PDT

Photo: AFP/Getty Caption: Teepees stand near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2017 at the start of a four-day protest against the Dakota Access pipeline and US President Donald Trump which will culminate in a march to the White House on March 10.