We're free! And happy. Maybe?
(Dear Milton,) You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
We are at an uneasy moment in social history. On the precipice, looking around and seeing that despite all appearances… something just isn't quite right. But what to do about it?
This installation is a slice of our time, suspended, boundaries fluid, straddling the line of what is and what is possible. One at a time, participants become co-authors of that line between how we are and how we could be, together.
Installation Artifacts
Surreality: Modern Woman : Opportunity
Recent duh! moment; the Little Boxes* and Surreality: Modern Woman themes are related
insert *forehead slap* here.
The song played over and over in my head while working out the sculpture for Surreality: Modern Woman. What if… the song played while the same image repeated over and over? Might that reinforce the message? And if that happened to be a flip animation, then it could lend to an interactive experience. A heavy-handed experience, but interactive all the same.
And so, we have… Surreality: Modern Woman : Opportunity
The installation, and the video. Please take the opportunity to critical examine a cultural myth and decide if conforming to this version of reality is for you.
*a huge thank you to Nancy Schimmel, Malvina Reynolds's daughter, for permission to use the song Little Boxes.
