Here’s some fine embroidered imagery of “kids these days” from Facebook by Kathy Halper in Juxtapoz – frolicking, drinking, vomiting, repeat. They’re pontificated with notes on “interpretive pole dancing” and happenings: ”He went through and tagged himself on my crotch in all my Facebook pics.” It’s all so very sweaty, vacuous and dizzy with teenage banality, it’s curious to imagine the artist sitting there with a needle, delicately rendering the ruckus, stitch by stich. Oh, she’s also a self-described “parent” who got the idea by spying on her kids’ Facebook accounts. Awkward.
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Just for the record, there was very little "spying" involved. Random kids friended me within minutes of setting up a facebook account and then their images started appearing on my news feed. Part of the point of the work is that there is this mis-guided belief that the only people viewing your pictures are your close friends (all 3000 of them…) when in fact the information is available to the world.
Also for the record, I have an excellent close relationship with my teenage children who have supported and encouraged this work, as well as many of their friends who have actually requested that I do embroideries of them. I do not know a parent alive who is not curious about their child's private life once they become independent. I assume you're too young to appreciate that.