INSPIRATIONS + OBSERVATIONS

AN AMERICAN GIRL is intended to represent a snapshot of our visual culture-- Where does ‘it’ end and where does our American Culture begin? The wide range of imagery is a device used to describe the speed, the overwhelming volume, and the diverse channels of media that submerges us in visual culture, every minute of everyday. Largely interested in the difference between the presented ideal vs. our reality, I used the friction between what we ‘see’ and what we ‘live’ to create AN AMERICAN GIRL that asks, “Just what is the collective impact of such imagery?”