21st Century Love
21st Century Love © Antony Micallef (2006)
Best Interpretation: “To be yours, Valentine in the time we occupy, I will be labeled and many, winged and bladed, six and sixteen and thirty-six and sixty-nine. My gods will be many and none, I will fall to my knees for gucci. I will be your rainbow, your blow-pop, your pop-tart, your one. Every one. I will buy you a new me at the mall when this one bores you. Love, we suffer so long and often.” -S. Kartsonis
Issue Jan 2007
Contemporary Pop Art
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To be yours, Valentine in the time we occupy, I will be labeled and many, winged and bladed, six and sixteen and thirty-six and sixty-nine. My gods will be many and none, I will fall to my knees for gucci. I will be your rainbow, your blow-pop, your pop-tart, your one. Every one. I will buy you a new me at the mall when this one bores you. Love, we suffer so long and often.
If we scanned through every successful brand imaginable, would we end up with an image like this?
Society’s branding and molding of humans. Are we all we can be, or do we need to consume products to be a part of the colorful “Times Square” lifestyle? Everything must sell! You are a product of society. Are you buying or part of the fused investment? Everything purchased goes on you, or is contributed to your envisionment of present world. There are niche markets, general consumers…there are all types of brands and one just waiting for you.
The angel sets wings to liberate from earth, to reach the heaven cleansed from marketing gadgets and logotypes. Freed from artificial coloring and pictorial illusions. Truth is finding color, but within yourself. “Just Do It!”
Hahaha, amazing interpretation Kartsonis!
Christ(ian)/Dio(r)s/God/ sent an angel.
On her way to the Earth, she married Captain America. Later she became a very rich widow because The Captain died fighting the Power Puff Girls.
With all the money and properties, the Angel went down to New York and bought an expensive residence.
But she made a mistake letting Paris Hilton be her friend.
One night at Paris´s house , the Angel met Mickey Mouse, and they had an affair. Nobody knew about it, nobody until the news showed a picture of the killed angel. Yes, a murder. The police is still searching… but they have a lot of clues. Who are the main suspects?
Our hands are empty but our eyes aren’t and the rainbow ahead has pawned its blues and purples for a smidge of the latest *what*. When we rented out our organs the hunger expanded, expanded, an endless balloon. Our knees are knocky open mouths like our mouths are open knocky need. Honey, if we had a chance at all those wings would have left us long ago.