Friday 21 September 2012

Kitsch

Yeah, but no, but yeah... Actually it's an incisive subversion of the Japanese Maneki Neko 'lucky cat' custom - would we accept it if it were real cats posed in shop doorways, forever forced to beckon customers over the threshold? Yeah. Right on.

Jocasta and Henry are typical metropolitan PIB's* down for the weekend in Hastings to look at the art and the poverty ("Gosh, it's terribly authentic here, isn't it, Jocasta?"). On the Jedward's opening night the town was full of art beings like these two, eating fish and chips out of newspapers and kidding themselves they were doing it ironically.

*Persons in black.

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