Addiction,obsession,idolisation all words to associate with the celebrity way of culture. Importantly these words can relate to the system celebrities work in to attract and maintain their knownship to others worldwide. Therefore from this i have began to look into ways of interpreting this love visually and somehow refer to objects that we desire on a daily basis. For example sweets,ice cream, chocolate all have a significant relation to how celebrities are adored by millions. The connection between these two is that they always serve a aesthetic function and by transferring this purpose to the way celebrities are valued. To make this possible i have visualised the celebrity pose in a sweet like manner. to develop this concept further we could use a anything in reference to a celebrity and pour treacle or honey over it constantly to over decorate and create a very bold statement to how this culture is presented to us.
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maybe like this. more recognizable features. poses of face. this is actually a photo where she has her tongue out. so u r engaging with their tastelessness and also u get this sick sense of reacting to their fake, provocative acting.
i like this using food again. yup.
ReplyDeletealso relates to bell hooks 'eating the other', cannibal culture etc. so the form of the celbirty is gonna inform the shape of the candy etc? maybe we could think of distince bodyparts again like lips, arms , hair(!) etc. like it. food eating, thats something primal. also id like to make some of this food and so people can smell it. even taste it. make it disgusting.
the piece would of course be wasteful (food would be made and then not properly consumed) but then again thats what celebrity culture is all about. waste. senseless delusion of the rich and upperclasses in the western world.