Dear Lyns,
So I'm serious: I'm responding to your in-reponse-to-this-blog-blog so wonderfully named Dear Kim.... (dinnaekenwhityertalkinaboot!).... love it!
Here's a postcard image for you from the Marilyn Monroe exhibition that Daniela and I went to at the Borges museum in the city centre the other day.
I know these are film stills, so Marilyn-in-characters acted, but still, I love how in contrast to the well known glam-sex-symbol Marilyn here in the photo on the left she is all innocent and homely. I have a feeling you'll like her outfit in the photo on the right, and probably want one for yourself on your next trip to the beach.. in fact can we both have one?!
Through the myriad of photos of Marilyn in the exhibition we seemed to get a glimpse into who she might have been as a character, and I get the feeling she was warm with a big heart, and from the writing about her form directors who directed her, witgh a huge natural talent for her craft. But as with every celebrity whose image has become iconic there are always the questions how much was she performing in her public life, how much was she acting consciously or how much performing subconsciously in the way we all 'act' the versions of ourselves we want to present to the world on a daily basis? How 'authentic' was she?
Interesting to read then in the exhibition notes that Blanca María Monzón's in curating the show was to draw attention to the idea that all of us are impressions, constructed from a myriad of different snapshot images... hence why for different people we can represent different things, as each person views each other through the filter of their own personal experiences and world view.
It's my intention that in observing these photos we take into account that nobody is anything more than a copy, of a real or imagined copy, whose resemblance refers to the identity of the subject, but that will never be in its totality.
(is it cheating to include more than one-photo in these postcard blogs?!...Apparently even with this approach I can't be concise.)
Also Lyns, because you complained that there are not enough photos of me, here you go.. one from la Boca. The reason for minimal photos of me is mainly because I'm always behind the camera, partly because I'm shy of being photographed - perhaps why here it felt slightly more comfortable being semi-camouflaged amongst the turquoise!
Thanks for the blog-laughter Lyns! Sending you and Gabs big hugs and dancing vibes from the city-of-tango!
Big love,
Kim
:-)
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