Vietnam+Wordle



Artist's Statement When I think about the War in Vietnam, I think about the way the war was fought. Chemicals, tunnels, and traps were used to fight a war like nothing that the United States had ever experienced before, so I made those words larger than others. The United States was unaware of what was happening in Vietnam, and when the Pentagon Papers were released there was a large impact on the support of the war. This change in opinion was very powerful, so I made the words Pentagon Papers large. Today the Prisoners of War need to be remembered as well as the many deaths that took place, so those words are large as well. The background of the wordle is dark, because the war was a dark time. The color red was used with the letters as it is the color of communism, and the grey represents a color that is far from red, to represent democracy. I used a font that could not be considered "fun," because the Vietnam was was in no way fun.