Air Conditioning Collage

This piece was hand cut using pages from vintage magazines. After being frozen in a magazine for over half a century, the subjects are free again, unconstrained, mischievous and playful, finally unshackled from the ideology that had left them trapped. I hope those that view this piece are drawn into its playful world and they become more open to recontextualizing the past or thinking of things in new and novel ways. I chose these magazines because they represent the life and consumer life of the people living in 50's and 60's, as American citizens transitioned into the role of consumer and embraced advertising, leisure, sports, etc.