photography diptych of handmade collages
Terrible seasons of youth is a photography diptych of handmade collages. Inspired by teenage bedroom walls, often covered with cut-out magazine pages, memories and symbols of personal identification, these collages combine printed stills from my childhood videos with internet footage to explore the idea of youth in America. By collecting recurring symbols of American youth values, I reflect on a childhood shaped by pop culture—images already ingrained in our collective memory. The TV serves as a metaphor for how private and public worlds converge through popular visual mediums. How media is the foundation for zeitgeist, and simultaneously a vessel to escape it, oftentimes through fabricated nostalgia, by using common memories of youth.
120x140cm