Four Females

I was chatting with Michael Paul Britto today and he shared a wonderful piece of insight about his practice with me:

"When I am creating work I am playing a kind of MEMORY game with myself.  One 'card' will flip over in my brain- a kind of random snippet from my past- and the Art making is a product of flipping the corresponding 'card'.  Making, finding, imagining the possible connections."

Within the space of my own pop cultural obsession I can completely relate to what Michael expresses.  The latest connection being 'Four Females' as a sitcom device.  There are definitely some connections that I want to explore here for my next collage series. I am first considering the repeating motifs (i.e. The sexpot, the bubblehead, the mother hen, the smartass...) that reveal themselves in each of the shows I've selected.  It's a veritable Venn Diagram played out on our television screens.

• Blanche | Dorothy | Rose | Sophia
• Charlene | Julia | Mary Jo | Suzanne
• Mary | Pearl | Rose | Sandra
• Florida | Penny | Thelma | Willona
• Joan | Lynn | Maya | Toni 
• Khadijah | Maxine | Régine | Synclaire
• Blair | Jo | Natalie  | Tootie
• Josie | Valerie | Melody | Alexandra
• Carrie | Charlotte | Miranda | Samantha