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This began as an assignment for an art class I'm taking at PSU. The task..first, notice how our consumer culture impacts our visual landscape. Next, create a message, put it on a t-shirt, and photograph someone wearing it. I chose "friend your mother" (as in facebook friend) as my message. How did I transform the exisitng visual landscape? I didn't feel like a single photograph could really capture this...this blog is both a record and a response.
The Shirt
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My own facebook friends story...
I came up with the idea of the t-shirt, as I have experienced the parent/child facebook friending conundrum from both sides. My own children, both in college now, would not friend me initially. My daughter friended me first, but she has over 1000 fb friends so friending me turned out to be no big deal. My son refused to friend me for quite some time. "It's just weird and wrong," he would say. Then he went off to college and changed his mind...we are now facebook friends. I suspect he may have two accounts...
When my own parents joined facebook and sent me a friend request, I must admit, I felt a little like my son had. It's not like I ever post anything scandalous, but I do feel a need on occasion to edit what I post in deference to my parents.
I was curious about other's experiences with friending their parents on facebook, particularly their mothers. As many of my t-shirt wearers have said, "well it's my mom..." There's a universal understanding in that phrase. But there is still a choice to be made and reasons behind it, and the t-shirt was a way to start the conversation.
friend your mother....
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