Love this! It's funny the things that stay with us. I've used a few pop culture icons in my collages when I knew I wanted to create something but didn't have a goal in mind (I, like many Millennial females, am utterly OBSESSED with the Olsen twins). TV shows for me were also a big part of growing up in the early 2000s and with those came the characters - Marrisa Cooper and the Chanel bag she wore as a school bag, Carrie Brandshaw and her Manolos and cosmos, Wisteria Lane and all the ladies. I think what stays with us is the people we were when we first encounted that specific pop culture experience. Although I was way too young to watch Sex and the City when it first came out, I was 17 when the final season aired and my God, did these women seem glamorous to me. Living alone in beautiful apartments, going out to fancy bars, wearing gorgeous outfits. It just spoke to something inside of 17 year old me, who was trying to figure out who she was in this world. This is why I'm so glad to have grown up before social media. These characters were only available 1 hour a week during a certain time and if you missed it, oh well. While they tied into my life, they didn't consume every waking minute of it.
Thanks for this post, it's really made me think (or ramble, sorry for the long comment)! And I'll be checking out the collage open call.
oh, I totally forgot about SATC, I was a bit older when the last season came out, but also way too young to really relate to these women. I loved the show, and yes, I think it shaped my ideas about the kind of life I might one day lead, or would want to, too. and double yes, I do remember the ritual of once a week screenings. we had viewing parties in the end because not everyone had HBO so we went to whoever was willing to have us, sometimes guys who were totally not into any of this but loved having a bunch of women over. the good old days. thank YOU for that trip down memory lane.
Love this! It's funny the things that stay with us. I've used a few pop culture icons in my collages when I knew I wanted to create something but didn't have a goal in mind (I, like many Millennial females, am utterly OBSESSED with the Olsen twins). TV shows for me were also a big part of growing up in the early 2000s and with those came the characters - Marrisa Cooper and the Chanel bag she wore as a school bag, Carrie Brandshaw and her Manolos and cosmos, Wisteria Lane and all the ladies. I think what stays with us is the people we were when we first encounted that specific pop culture experience. Although I was way too young to watch Sex and the City when it first came out, I was 17 when the final season aired and my God, did these women seem glamorous to me. Living alone in beautiful apartments, going out to fancy bars, wearing gorgeous outfits. It just spoke to something inside of 17 year old me, who was trying to figure out who she was in this world. This is why I'm so glad to have grown up before social media. These characters were only available 1 hour a week during a certain time and if you missed it, oh well. While they tied into my life, they didn't consume every waking minute of it.
Thanks for this post, it's really made me think (or ramble, sorry for the long comment)! And I'll be checking out the collage open call.
oh, I totally forgot about SATC, I was a bit older when the last season came out, but also way too young to really relate to these women. I loved the show, and yes, I think it shaped my ideas about the kind of life I might one day lead, or would want to, too. and double yes, I do remember the ritual of once a week screenings. we had viewing parties in the end because not everyone had HBO so we went to whoever was willing to have us, sometimes guys who were totally not into any of this but loved having a bunch of women over. the good old days. thank YOU for that trip down memory lane.