Very American image and title. I wonder why the word 'honky' comes into it? Since it's there, I'm thinking there is some kind of allusion to the 'Aryan' quality of the woman - blonde hair and blue eyes - although she has purple skin...
I think this image is playing with stereotypes and pulp fiction reproductions (like Lichtenstein's work - I find that 'Keep on Trucking' is actually a comic which plays with reproducing the same image over and over - maybe this is coincidental)... The purple probably emphasises the way that reproducing images for pulp fiction makes people into cartoons...
The pose is especially awkwards and strained and the model looks down on us... When we're nervous is when we feel most self-conscious...
"Honky" is used as a way of owning my own white trashness. You see the skin as purple? Hummm, am I color challenged or is it the computer or is it, you? I made it pink, or so it looks on this side of the pond. Perhaps the pose would make more sense if the camera was still in my hand. It was a 'looking through.' White trash can't look down on...thus, the white trash. Funny, the pose looks "awkward" I was thinking it was "cocky" and that was my stab at playing with a stereotype. Cocky white trash, does that even translate into London English?
Very American image and title. I wonder why the word 'honky' comes into it? Since it's there, I'm thinking there is some kind of allusion to the 'Aryan' quality of the woman - blonde hair and blue eyes - although she has purple skin...
ReplyDeleteI think this image is playing with stereotypes and pulp fiction reproductions (like Lichtenstein's work - I find that 'Keep on Trucking' is actually a comic which plays with reproducing the same image over and over - maybe this is coincidental)... The purple probably emphasises the way that reproducing images for pulp fiction makes people into cartoons...
The pose is especially awkwards and strained and the model looks down on us... When we're nervous is when we feel most self-conscious...
"Honky" is used as a way of owning my own white trashness. You see the skin as purple? Hummm, am I color challenged or is it the computer or is it, you? I made it pink, or so it looks on this side of the pond. Perhaps the pose would make more sense if the camera was still in my hand. It was a 'looking through.' White trash can't look down on...thus, the white trash. Funny, the pose looks "awkward" I was thinking it was "cocky" and that was my stab at playing with a stereotype. Cocky white trash, does that even translate into London English?
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