9/7/2023 0 Comments Pictures of girls camel tor“Double Headed Spit Monster” from “Girl Pictures” (Aperture, 2020) © Justine Kurland Perhaps this is why we love runaways so much. A kind of inverse of the American Dream, but with the same carrot on a string: freedom. What’s left after all this repetition of runaway legends and costumes are the common themes: rebellion, self-sufficiency, confidence. The girl at the center of this image guides the others, looking past the camera as if it doesn’t even matter, as if the thing worth examining is actually behind us. We see worn out overalls holding onto a girl’s body by one strap in The Wall, 2000 and are only vaguely aware of Huck Finn’s similar getup because there’s something new happening here. The girls in Girl Pictures plagiarize these myths until they become their own, until the original myth is hardly relevant anymore. But so many of those narratives ( Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Where the Wild Things Are, The Outsiders) center around young boys. “Pink Tree” from “Girl Pictures” (Aperture, 2020) © Justine KurlandĪdventure stories were a source of inspiration for this project.
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