I find it disturbing that the media is focused on depicting the marriages and romances of celebrities. This picture perpetuates the “fairy tale” notion of marriage and, in so doing, repeats and re-instills in our minds all of the gender, racial, class, and cultural stereotypes and inequalities learned through reading traditional Western fairytales like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. There needs to be more journalism and photography in the media that engages the public’s critical thinking skills so images like these are not taken for granted, and so these kinds of injustices do not continue to be seen as “normal” or “okay”. I have chosen to remix this image to show the “marriage” between the Arts and the Environment! If I had my way, I would have also remixed their outfits to be less mainstream Western cultural as well and/or I might have even depicted a same-sex marriage. For now, I have chosen to provide this image as a suggested alternative to be included in Women’s Day Magazine so that women who buy such magazines can fill their brains with alternative things so that our social and cultural “environment” will be much healthier
Source: Australian Women's Day Magazine, 2004.
Diem Dangers
