Title: “No, we can’t go home, there’s food at McDonalds“.
I want to shed light on the constant barrage of advertisements that beckon us to consume and put money towards capitalistic for-profit establishments, conditioning the notion that assimilating oneself into American mainstream culture will bring success and equitable social status. Advertised mostly to the persons whose identities are not represented or recognized as being part of the Western consumer “standard”(…)
This project is an observance of the push in assimilation of the mainstream cultural through a first-generational narrative look on food red lining and infrastructure, emmigrant family dynamics of gratitude and guilt, and the media’s role in the enactment of algorithms that aim to deliver the personas of desirable, consumable objects.
*I need help with an overview for this statement! I know what I am trying to say, but I’m not sure how it sounds outside of my head. I’ll need to think some more on what to add or take away from the statement, if anything
I am excited!!! It’s been going swimmingly so far
I need to put one more coat of tinted resin on all of the hanging plastic boxes, as well as a small cardboard box of empty nuggets that I taped over so that the resin wouldn’t seep through it. It should take one night/day to fully dry, then i’ll put another coat on the small cardboard box after the initial layer
Then, once my dried fruit has gotten a little bit more dry (i’m air-drying them in the sunroom right now), I will dip each piece in resin until fully coated and attach it to the outside of the tulle-encased-in-resin-sculpture (from which I will remove the underside latex skeleton so that it stands on its own). We will see if I will have enough resin for all of the fruit pieces! This should also dry within 24-48 hours
I then need to code a quick code for slow color-changing gradients, in the warm ranges (reds, oranges, yellows, pinks, limes) and test my analog-to-digital cable converter with my HDMI output on my laptop and see how it looks on the MINI TV
I then need to de-construct the living room and do my set-up, for a whole day, taking pictures at different times of the day.
(…) to be continued