Bert+is+Evil+Photo+Remix+Analysis

 Bert is Evil Photo Remix - aka Bert and The Forbidden City - aka Big Bert is Watching - aka Emperor Bert Guards Tianenmen

 The goals for my Remix project were to use a popular meme – that of Sesame’s Bert – and juxtapose this image over that a larger-than-life-portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs above the entrance to the 9,999 room Forbidden City, palatial residence to Chinese emperors up until 1911, when  [|the last emperor] , Puyi, was overthrown. When I visited China with eleven colleagues, I thought it beyond odd that Mao’s portrait would hang over the gates of something he deplored – that is Imperial China. Truly, when one looks beyond this entrance on one end of Tiananmen Square to the opposite side, it is easy to determine that Mao fancied himself an emperor as his mausoleum is the size of our nation’s Capitol with nothing in it but Mao’s glass encased and embalmed corpse that is open for public viewing year-round.