While I like the idea of community based pictures and the style of said pictures independently, I don’t think they mesh well together. When celebrities and the like are shown photographically around a community, they are usualy in ad form, providing a photo-realistic image of said celebrities. I feel like your work would better serve it’s fantastic premise if the photos of the locals were placed in the same advertising environment as the celebrities, creating a conversation not only between community and outsiders, but also between body image and self esteem and the average person. I think it would allow more people to understand the work while placing their beliefs on hold about who we decide to turn into demi-gods, while allowing them to question the unatainable beauty standard that is only present in declining societies.

Of course, this is your work and for all I know you’re trying to convey a totally different set of questions with the simplicity of the black and white “stamped” images.

Either way, I applaud the public work. I love when art is taken out of the gallery and the elitist setting that it provides and is delivered to everyone as a whole.

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