Disco Sale is about giving credence to the decade of my formative years, the 70’s. In the past decade, there has been a sort of embarrassment about living in the 1970s and listening to Disco. A camp aesthetic has been imposed on it in the 1990s giving it a chic and nostalgic quality suitable for retrospection and revival.
The pieces in this body of work address the evolution of how I think and feel about the 1970s and Disco. The various shrouds are evidence of its altered form, a mere imprint in my mind. But it is also a way of immortalizing what is dead. Several color copies present the viewer with today’s image of the 1970s. Through the evolution and revival of things Disco, we are faced with flat copies of what was once vibrant and uninhibited. The attention to synthesis, as in the popular fabrics of the time, and to structure, like tailored silhouettes of the clothes, turns the Disco ball, the everlasting symbol of the time, into an organic and cancerous growth.
The other pieces are photo transfers reworked with gel medium. Images are passed on, leaving a trace yet require a medium to solidify, clarify, and preserve the memories of this fading time. These are the last attempts to recount the stories of the 1970s. It’s the final markdown. Discounts will no longer be accepted.
