Welcome to the second installment of Dori Tunstall’s monthly dispatch that pairs 100 words and 1 image—an invitation to pause, reflect, and reimagine design’s role in cultural life.
(White) Washing Our Sins Away
Oblivion Disinfecting Bleach bottle in full color as part of Tavares Strachan’s The Day Tomorrow Began Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Image credit: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall
Pop Art was my favorite genre of art in high school because it elevated everyday products in my Midwestern home to “high art”. The Wash House installation in Tavares Strachan’s The Day Tomorrow Began Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art merges Pop Art with a critique of the (white) washing of U.S. history. In one of these 2025 works, Strachan uses bleach marketing to call out the killing of “99.9% of truths, archives & inconvenient voices.” Unfortunately, the art doesn’t work if people see it as just a selfie backdrop, like 99.9% of visiting high schoolers did.
An award-winning design anthropologist and author of “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook” (MIT Press, 2023), Dori Tunstall brings a practice rooted in cultural justice and liberatory joy. Through her coaching and consulting, she helps organizations build more equitable relationships with the communities they serve. Her writing has also appeared on Substack, “Fast Company,” and “The Architect’s Newspaper.“
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