My feedback from Shaun Hydes suggested having an opening image so that when I’m talking about my position as a fan and the consumerist relationship between the West and the Orient people have something to look at. I initially thought about finding images online, something to back up my area of love. After hours of watching rubbish videos I decided I should produce my own work. What better way to establish myself as a fan than to prove it visually. I thought about the images I took for research in Phonar…
Then I realised these don’t enforce it enough. So I began to think about the authorities I think inform me, Sanrio. I collected all of my Hello Kitty merch and laid it out on my floor. Although it is a lot it doesn’t look like alot in this image it is.
I need to think more about how to display my collection. JeongMee Yoon’s work sprung to mind, incude myself in the work. What if I wore everything Hello Kitty, sitting in my room on my bed surrounded by anime posters with all my other Hello Kitty belongings surrounding me? I will atempt this tomorrow and hopefully it will put my message across right. (No where near expecting my work to be as over the top as this work, but it’s a starting point.)
UPDATE – 7/2/2013 @ 16:30
As I was preparing myself for this shoot I realised I was giving myself unnecessary work. I have multiple online platforms I used in order to “Geek Out” so why not just some of my images from that? people don’t want to see some master piece, I just need images thats support what I’m saying. I went through my instagram and selected relevant photos. Here is my end result…
using images of myself. Hello Kitty. King Kong, anime and cosplay tos upport my ideas about myself being a fan and the west having a consumer view. Everything I see as being unique or new to me, is mainstream in Japan.
