Global Mutations #2 (Samurai)
From the "Global Mutations" series
2005
Adopting the elongated format of Japanese pillar prints, Shimomura presented the figures in "Global Mutations" (2005) as a cultural cross-dressers. ...a Kabuki samurai warrior poses in "Fruit of the Loom" underwear and argyle socks...
All these figures are juxtaposed with Western consumer goods and their trademarks - Scholls' foot products, tampons, and McDonald's. The comic visual disconnects conveyed by the bicultural appearance of these personages and the professions they reference provide a sarcastic future vision, when globalization reduces all cultures to a single homogenized unit.
Global Mutations #2 (Samurai)
From the "Global Mutations" series
2005
Adopting the elongated format of Japanese pillar prints, Shimomura presented the figures in "Global Mutations" (2005) as a cultural cross-dressers. ...a Kabuki samurai warrior poses in "Fruit of the Loom" underwear and argyle socks...
All these figures are juxtaposed with Western consumer goods and their trademarks - Scholls' foot products, tampons, and McDonald's. The comic visual disconnects conveyed by the bicultural appearance of these personages and the professions they reference provide a sarcastic future vision, when globalization reduces all cultures to a single homogenized unit.