A journalist is interviewing a visitor who has just seen "Supermarket Lady" (one of Duane Hanson's sculpture). If it could be a female voice, that would be great because the visitor is a girl. She has been shocked and upset by the sight of this sculpture. The journalist is only asking 2 questions... if you could imitate a different voice for the journalist... Thank you so much!
If you are "a male voice", it's fine but at the end you will have to change one word: "I don't want to look like this "person"... instead of "like this woman".
- "What was your initial reaction to the sculpture and why?"
- " The first time I saw it I was schoked. I thought: "How gross!"
What's the point of showing a plump woman pushing her shopping cart?
I thought it was real, then I realized it was a sculpture!
I wondered why Duane Hanson modelled a rather fat American housewife...
When you come to think of it, this work of art is both realistic and cruel.
- "What makes you think it is both realistic and cruel?
- It's realistic because it's an everyday scene, a very commonplace situation. This woman is a typical housewife in her rollers, her tight skirt, and with her cigarette.
Her cart is full to the brim: cans, bottles, bags! She's bought loads of food and piles of junk food. We can actually read the brand names.
It is also cruel because this scene is really ugly... but that's what we can see every time we go to the supermarket.
It is a mirror of our consumer society. Consumers want to buy more and more...
The artist is very clever. It is so shocking, so revolting, it makes you aware of our consumer society and all its drawbacks!
And honestly, I don't want to look like this woman in a few years! "
