The Post Party Walk Home
Rebecca Hutchinson
This series of work forms part of a wider project I want to expand on, titled my childhood stereotypes of adults, as my images showcase one of the stereotypes I had of adults when I was a child, of adults always going to parties and getting drunk. Therefore, my images follow the narrative of myself walking home from a Halloween party, ‘drunk’ in a fairy costume, with the use of the flash, helping to show that my images were taken when it’s late at night, or early morning, when most parties end. And to represent how most drunk images are taken using a flash on a phone by friends or family members, who walk home with you to make sure you get home okay. As well as this, I was the model for my images to showcase how females do go out and get drunk, as it is mostly what males do more regularly than females the saying goes, ‘I’m going down to the pub with the boys’, is heard a lot of males rather than females. And so, I modelled in my images as when I was a child, I always thought it was everyone who went out and partied and got drunk, regardless of gender. For the remainder of my ongoing project, I intend to create more series similar to the post-party walk home, that explore additional stereotypes I had of adults when I was a child, by creating my own staged scenes and using props to configure these narratives.