James Blagden has most certainly offended a person or two with his work, but that’s not to say it’s been without intention. He’ll take contemporary urban imagery and twist and shape it until it says what he wants it to. I’m not always into the ‘socially conscious’ art, but I like his style and the fact that a lot of these images are rooted in my generation. From his interview on Format magazine:
That was the inspiration for that whole series, like look how these people are portrayed on T.V. and the rest of it all came from television. Asians are nerdy or retarded, because either they’re in computer class or they’re William Hung or they know karate, they’re Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan.
James Blagden
James Blagden has most certainly offended a person or two with his work, but that’s not to say it’s been without intention. He’ll take contemporary urban imagery and twist and shape it until it says what he wants it to. I’m not always into the ‘socially conscious’ art, but I like his style and the fact that a lot of these images are rooted in my generation. From his interview on Format magazine:
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via Beautiful/Decay.