From Susan Copich’s “Domestic Bliss” series. Before you click on the link I should warn you that her black humour extends to suicide and infanticide.
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She just looks grumpy in all of them. If she had a more expressive approach it would have worked really well.
Ooh, dark! What do you think of the way her male partner is always either cropped out of everything (sometimes jarringly just his face) or is disenged? I see it as a ppowerful statement of his role in parenting. But nobody else I showed this to agrees 😛
I love that these expose what’s beneath the surface of so many families — the stuff that is suppressed, not talked about. I love the contrast between the middle-class-ness of the family that conveys to the audience that the family has “everything it needs,” yet nevertheless illustrates the existential crisis underpinning modern family life…