The ‘Pop corn project’ evolved from the telling of a story by one of my peers about her witnessing, while holidaying in the US, a camel called Mona chewing on the arm an American tourist. I thought that this could only ever happen in America and I remembered when I first arrived there how it smelt of popcorn and how persistent and invasive this smell was. I also felt as if I was in a film because I had only ever witnessed ‘America’ through the screen of a television.
This seed of an idea prompted a number of pieces of very different work based on the idea that America was made out of popcorn and that we live in a consumerist, throwaway society that cares little for community.
To many millions of people popcorn is something you eat while escaping from the intrinsically unhappy lives we are forced to lead. Not only is it in the top 10 most dangerous foods but it was also given to the founding fathers by the Winnoag Indians on Thanksgiving Day.
What I love about popcorn is that something so small and inconsequential can mean so much if one puts it into different contexts, political and historical with different stories, frameworks and happenings.
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