Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Knitting (video)



https://youtu.be/XGRT0r9geyo

FULL VIDEO - "Knitting" Written, directed, performed, and edited by Emma Johnson, 2005.

Monday, May 30, 2005

MCAD Senior Show









FULL VIDEO:

https://youtu.be/XGRT0r9geyo

4 20 x 24 in. C-prints, 2005Pregnant Fantasy
Barbie’s fantasy is more exciting before it happens.
The Barbie waits in the Garden of Eden.
This is Exactly Where I Thought I Would Be at Age 29/ What's So Funny?The girl comforts the boy and two balloons mingle.
The girl comforts the boy and two balloons mingle.
14'35", Digital Video, 2005Knitting
Knitting.
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Barbie® imagery is hard to execute successfully because it is so iconic with its many connotations and associations; but when you get it right it’s like high point-value letters in Scrabble®!

In the Pregnant Fantasy series I am interested in feminist theorist Judith Butler’s theory that although gender pre-exists, mostly it is something that is acted out or performed. This series is meant to be viewed with my correlating film Knitting. These photographs represent the fleeting thoughts of the protagonist in the film while she knits. Feminism has come a long way, but in contemporary times the problems are beneath the surface and more subtle. We’re so programmed to think a certain way that things go unnoticed.