[trailer life, but swanky!!!]
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SOCIAL
MOBILITY
Social Mobility was the last print
series that I did during my MFA at Cranbrook. At the
time I was very interested in class assumptions and how
the things we buy become signifiers of class. I was interested
in how the class status of things is rather transitory;
what may signify wealth one decade becomes associated
with poverty the next. That is what drew me to the airstream
trailers...
In the beginning Airstreams,
and mobile homes in general, were signifiers of wealth
during the
increased mobility in the U.S. following WWII. An upper-middle
class traveller could afford to bring a home
across the country [See the I Love Lucy movie that centers
around their mobile home: The
Long, Long Trailer]. By
the late 20th century the trailer had obviously fallen
from
grace
and
was relegated
to
the trash
[though the airstream is trying to make a comeback].
Social mobility compresses the histories
of the transient trailer with more lasting name-brand
signifiers of wealth, calling into question the consumption
of status-symbols.
VIEW
THE PROJECT IN ITS ENTIRETY
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