This painting visualizes the gerrymandering of communities by drawing all boundaries of Chicago’s political wards from 1923 to the present over the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Decade after decade, Logan Square has been split into multiple wards, an outcome driven in part by efforts to gentrify this once predominantly Mexican neighborhood. Gerrymandering can undermine community efforts to resist gentrification by taking blocks away from anti-gentrification politicians and redistricting them to politicians supported by the real estate lobby. Now a predominantly white upper-middle class neighborhood, this visualization of wards over Logan Square visualizes the battle over community development.
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 60
This painting visualizes the gerrymandering of communities by drawing all boundaries of Chicago’s political wards from 1923 to the present over the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Decade after decade, Logan Square has been split into multiple wards, an outcome driven in part by efforts to gentrify this once predominantly Mexican neighborhood. Gerrymandering can undermine community efforts to resist gentrification by taking blocks away from anti-gentrification politicians and redistricting them to politicians supported by the real estate lobby. Now a predominantly white upper-middle class neighborhood, this visualization of wards over Logan Square visualizes the battle over community development.
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 60