Political Craft: Obama Nesting Dolls

I like the idea of nesting dolls as a metaphor for personality and layers of personal and social significance of an individual or an idea or both. What should you choose as the outer layer? What the public sees first would be the obvious choice, but maybe its the biggest thing about the person, the thing  that will emerge ultimately. Is the biggest thing about Obama what his happy family represents to the world and to America as our concepts of family change? As a black man in a cohesive family unit as a role model to African Americans?

Or should that be at the center of who he is, the deepest layer, the most discreet and most protected part of who he is?

Is the family he came from a segue into his adult self? Is this a personal or political nesting doll? Are we talking about him as a figure or as a force? There’s lots of ways of slicing it.

Though a great idea, which is why I’m posting the picture here, I wish the designer had spent a bit more time on the execution. I would have liked to see a deluxe version with a bit more of a finish or more color. A shame to waste such a great idea on such scant development.

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