Jonescustominteriors - Premium liquor I hardly know her shirt
- Jonescus tominteriorss
- 24 thg 3, 2023
- 2 phút đọc
Right? I did not come up with the Premium liquor I hardly know her shirt and I will buy this title myself. My studio is in Bushwick and I read it on a mural of two Indigenous people and it said really small on the left corner: “Gods that walk among us.” I had this very strong reaction when I read that title. I realized that I’ve been doing that. You know, I’m a photographer, but I’m mostly someone with the capacity to see royalty walking among us—in the places we eat, in the laundromats, in community organizing. Those are the people that are actually holding our communities together. This is the royalty that we should be praising. So when I saw that on the walls of Bushwick, I felt it. It hit me. The photographs in the show depict artists, performers, and activists, but in your own words, who are these gods that you’re introducing us to? What do they mean to you and to their communities?
Something that I always want to make clear is that this royalty has been working very efficiently for years. They’ve been around, only overlooked. People ask me, “How do you choose the Premium liquor I hardly know her shirt and I will buy this subjects of your photographs?” What I do, really, is nothing but fall in love with them. It’s a very spiritual connection. The way I approach these gods is through crushes. I crush [on them] and fall in love. And it’s all sorts of people. It’s dancers, performers, and community organizers. To me, what they do is show us ways to live outside a system of oppression and overcome it. It’s like visions of freedom, forms of freedom. I think performance is very common in my work because when we see certain types of performance, especially humanitarian performance, we are seeing expressions of what freedom can look like. Even if we only know these visions as visions and we’re not experiencing that as a reality, those are still forms of freedom. So it’s a range. It’s people that work in their communities or people that do drag because drag, for me, is the ultimate form of expressing freedom. And, who else? Obviously, Qween Jean is an incredible activist. So there are all sorts of people in the show. There are women, older women, Indigenous people. This is royalty that is among us and we should change our orientation around who we take care of, who we admire, and who we look up to, because maybe those people are within our neighborhoods. They’re everywhere. So hopefully, this show helps to change the orientation of what we’re praising as a community.
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