Sep 21, 2016
Today: Cliff divers, swimming babies, women's boxing, and a Halo jetpack.
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Today: Cliff divers, swimming babies, women's boxing, and a Halo jetpack.
One of my favorite things about watching a TV show or a movie is getting to check out the fictional world that the characters live in. Whether we spend most of our time in their bedroom, their house, or hanging near their school locker, it’s always interesting to see how where they keep their stuff … Read More
Rene Allen, “Home”, 2013
In this series, Rene Allen creates floor-plan maps, from memory, of the homes she lived in throughout her childhood. Allen moved around a lot through her life and says that this project exemplifies “the failure of my memory to locate spaces in time.” The constant in all the maps is her bedroom and her bed, which she notes, “becomes a stand in for myself, traveling through the spaces of my memory.” Allen’s project highlights the bedroom as an important space throughout her childhood, which relates to the focus of this blog--to bring attention to the importance of girl’s bedrooms in female identity. “Home” specifically points out the role of one’s bed and bedroom as a grounding element for our memories and our relationship to the past.
See the full project and the artist’s statement here: http://cargocollective.com/ReneAllen/Home-2013
A woman must have money and a room of her own...
Virginia Wolfe, “A Room of One’s Own”
“Girls and their rooms is the subject of a comprehensive collection of portraits by photographer Rania Matar, which capture stunning and intensely personal scenes of teenage girls in their most intimate environments. Her new book, A Girl and Her Room, features close to 100 images from the project.” --Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/a-girl-and-her-room-rania_n_1452805.html)
obviously an essential...
This show was curated by Petra Collins & Tavi Gevinson at Space 1520 in 2012. Real good inspo.
from teen angel
a selection of photographs of Tavi Gevinson in her bedroom by Petra Collins
the whole series is here.