Lime Frog Imagines

Real people are messy. Complicated. The products of their time and their culture. Influenced by their society and their class, their race and sex and gender. The amalgam of their childhood experiences. Prone to bias and mistake and inexplicable human oddness. And people live private lives with private thoughts and unknowable details that even the most ardent biographer will not be able to document.

And as soon as you try to take a real human person and turn them into "representation"- you have to sand off the edges and the bumps, you have to simplify and generalize their story to make it fit on an inspirational poster for whatever X history/heritage month you are trying to make.