
[On the Moo-Farm] Photograph by Alex W. Meriwether, 2004
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[On the Moo-Farm] Photograph by Alex W. Meriwether, 2004
I suppose this is a departure from contemporary art musings, but I find the following video clips just as affecting…. Upon encountering these sequences on this internet of ours, I am filled to the brim with nostalgic wonder.
It is perhaps only in this light, clouded by memory, that a merchandise-driven, outsourced, overseas-animated program could inspire this. I remember thinking at the time that the show was mostly there to showcase all the cool things the masks could do, for when I played with the toys. That the program M.A.S.K. was in some ways little more than a commercial seems so readily apparent, now. The fog of marketing has cleared.
But of course, it hasn’t. Maybe only the toys have changed; of course I’m still the exuberant target of clever salesmanship.
Maybe most curious of all, though, is being so passionately fond of it all. The texture that was absent in the cartoons themselves is provided by the reflections upon them, layering themselves, youtubes on top of ebay purchases on top of reminiscent conversations with peers on top of the recollection of somehow arranging it so that I was allowed to set up a little t.v. in the bathroom, so I could watch M.A.S.K. from the bathtub.

I could never quite bring myself to throw out this office doodle from 2003.

[Making All the Difference] Photograph by Alex Meriwether, 2008