Seabass Immonen | 2023 | Apparel & International Relations
Living in Quburia
Bleached and hand-dyed denim, couch fabric, ribbon, and a broken disco ball
The dyed pants’ pattern is of the chair in the photo, on which I grew up watching TV and messing around, because it reminds me of home and my neighborhood in suburban Pittsburgh. It communicates how I command my understanding of home to welcome me, whether that’s in Pennsylvania or Rhode Island, by transforming the mundanity and rigidity of a planned community into an ironic form of expression. I “undo” the dominant narrative and culture of suburban life, with its typical heteronormative nuclear family, by so openly breaching it’s cold gray pavement with queer pride and color. This image’s composition and editing make clear how it can often feel dizzying to locate yourself under the pressure of conformity. I guess that’s why it’s called orientation.
from Undoing, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, January 20 - April 8, 2021
