Excerpts from Notes on “Camp”, by Susan Sontag, 1964
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to “the serious.” One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
To start very generally: Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. That way, the way of Camp, is not in terms of beauty, but in terms of the degree of artifice, of stylization. To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content. It goes without saying that the Camp sensibility is disengaged, depoliticized - or at least apolitical.
Sunset figurine, 2014, oil on canvas, 30” x 25”
The Pie Thief figurine, 2014, oil on canvas, 34” x 26”
Freedom From Fear figurine, 2013, oil on canvas, 38” x 35”
No Swimming figurine, 2013, oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Doll Bath Hummel, 2013, oil on canvas, 24” x 20”
Chore Girl Hummel, 2015, oil on linen, 22” x 20”
Girl on a Fence Hummel, 2014, oil on canvas, 11” x 14”
Birth of the New Man figurine, after Salvador Dali, 2020, oil on linen, 20” x 24”
Best Friends figurine, 2014, oil on canvas, 25” x 22”
Saying Grace figurine, 2013, oil on canvas, 37” x 35”
The Runaway figurine, 2014, oil on canvas, 32” x 27”
Little Erasmus Hummel, 2021, oil on linen, 24” x 20”
Kiss Me Hummel, 2015, oil on canvas, 26” x 18”
Sensitive Hunter Hummel, 2015, oil on linen, 19” x 15”
The Golden Rule figurine, 2017, oil on linen, 26” x 16”
Son of, the Son of, The Son of Man figurine, 2020, oil on linen, 24” x 18”