Kate! What happened to the from the archive post? I was finally going to comment on it. There was just a lot about it I wanted to say so I never found the time to write a comment.
I was thinking a lot about the pervasiveness of iconography like mickey mouse. I was watching one of those videos where parent's surprise their kid with a trip to disneyland. There is one of me and my sister getting surprised with a disney trip when I was 8 or 9.
Anyways. I think about disneyland a LOT. I actually have a little mini body of work regarding pictures related to disneyland. I just thought of them. I'll post them on here when I get home. I guess the thing I personally find difficult with disney and disneyland is balancing the contradictory feelings of nostalgia and realizing that, well, disney is a pretty shitty corporation. I have so many memories of the purest form of childhood happiness because of Disney. I've been wanting to go back to Disneyland to photograph it.
ANYWAYS. Back to the south pacific. Do you see disney characters a lot? Have you figured out what that's about? What was the context of a disney meat refrigerator/display case? Also the most absurd/greatest thing about that photograph to me are the flowers dividing space between the meats! It makes me want to photograph flowers and meat. It also strangely makes me think of the photograph you posted on my post, it seems to be a frozen fruit of some kind? I've always viewed it as being the strange mix of floral and flesh like.
Anyways. Bring the archive post back. I LOVE that still life with the giant pink flower with the blue background.
Yeah - weird - that frozen fruit thing in the other picture is actually meat as well. It is a swordfish steak or something like that.
Right - I was referring to the other picture with the hand drawn Little Mermaid, but you just made me thing a lot more about disney than previous. I like the struggle you lay out between feeling nostaligic for it and not wanting to admit to feeling nostalgic for it. Like your childhood self is letting down your adult self for not having been more savvy. . . . funny.
Kate! What happened to the from the archive post? I was finally going to comment on it. There was just a lot about it I wanted to say so I never found the time to write a comment.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking a lot about the pervasiveness of iconography like mickey mouse. I was watching one of those videos where parent's surprise their kid with a trip to disneyland. There is one of me and my sister getting surprised with a disney trip when I was 8 or 9.
Anyways. I think about disneyland a LOT. I actually have a little mini body of work regarding pictures related to disneyland. I just thought of them. I'll post them on here when I get home. I guess the thing I personally find difficult with disney and disneyland is balancing the contradictory feelings of nostalgia and realizing that, well, disney is a pretty shitty corporation. I have so many memories of the purest form of childhood happiness because of Disney. I've been wanting to go back to Disneyland to photograph it.
ANYWAYS. Back to the south pacific. Do you see disney characters a lot? Have you figured out what that's about? What was the context of a disney meat refrigerator/display case? Also the most absurd/greatest thing about that photograph to me are the flowers dividing space between the meats! It makes me want to photograph flowers and meat. It also strangely makes me think of the photograph you posted on my post, it seems to be a frozen fruit of some kind? I've always viewed it as being the strange mix of floral and flesh like.
Anyways. Bring the archive post back. I LOVE that still life with the giant pink flower with the blue background.
Yeah - weird - that frozen fruit thing in the other picture is actually meat as well. It is a swordfish steak or something like that.
ReplyDeleteRight - I was referring to the other picture with the hand drawn Little Mermaid, but you just made me thing a lot more about disney than previous. I like the struggle you lay out between feeling nostaligic for it and not wanting to admit to feeling nostalgic for it. Like your childhood self is letting down your adult self for not having been more savvy. . . . funny.
But, yeah, meat and flowers, that is sort of a weird parring.
ReplyDeleteGeorge, you must have some dead animal images to throw in here. . . . maybe that film of the dying parakeet?