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Tyler English: "Welcome Home"

Tyler English Student Broadside

My great grandfather Wojciech (Polish version of Albert) immigrated to the US from Poland in 1902. Shortly after immigrating to Chicago he began going by the name George. Whether he faced internal or external pressures to "Americanize" himself I may never know, but I wanted to represent that weight. Printed in Polish is the phrase "Witaj w domu" meaning "welcome home", but it is almost completely drowned out by the message in English and overlapping imagery of the nuclear family.