Consume
One aspect of consuming that has become very disturbing to me is the direct marketing to children. In these large-scale conceptual photographs exhibited at CoCA, headless child mannequins disturbingly interact with typical childhood toys, foods or each other. There is an anxiety in our culture about the overwhelming intrusion of this marketing at increasingly younger ages. Parents struggle with this unavoidable competition and feel they are losing control of their children as the influence of their own values is being supplanted by the marketer’s.
