{"product_id":"the-selves","title":"The Selves","description":"\u003cp\u003eA HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL STUDY OF ART, POP, FEMININITY, AND FEMINISMBefore blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favored by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A selftaught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her popculture obsessions on her sleeve, professing her love for such visual icons as Princess Di, Holly Hobbie, and Stevie Nicks. Focusing on found objects such as stickers, greeting cards, andmagazine photos collected in collage framework, complete with song lyrics handlettered in cursive script and heartbreaking, melancholic watercolors, Ahlers explores and exposes the social construction of roles, feminine and otherwise. Beginning with incipient childhood selfawareness and traversing high school status jockeying to adult social climbing, the cultural imagery that supports and informs personal identity is given uneasy new meanings and importance in Ahlerss visual remixes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Ahlers, Sonja \/ paperback","offer_id":47840081477877,"sku":"SONG1770460101","price":19.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/712F6QaIjJL.jpg?v=1773748659","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-selves","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}