A covered mouth surrounded by raised fists makes silence the subject of the design. “Silence Is Complicity” asks what our silence allows and whose voices need room.
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Behind the Design
A hand covers a woman’s mouth while raised fists fill the space around her. The composition puts suppression and resistance in the same frame. The words “Silence Is Complicity” ask the person looking at it to consider what happens when a voice is shut out and everyone else carries on.
The point is to direct attention toward the conditions that make speaking difficult and the choices available to people with room to speak. Solidarity can begin with listening, asking a direct question, challenging an unsupported claim or making space for someone whose experience is being dismissed.