Golddigger
Posted on | June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
I was thinking of the title “Gold Ring” for this new painting, but when I started writing this post, the title felt all wrong. I was thinking of my other painting, “Silver Ring,” and then the song, “Make new friends (make new friends …) but keep the oh-uld (… but keep the oh-uld) one is silver (one is sil …) and the other’s (and the oth …) gold …” started to play in my head. (That was a visual representation of “sung in a round,” by the way.) The title suddenly felt too sweet, innocent and boring.
And then it came to me: Golddiggers.
I loved this jeans commercial when I was a kid. “You can go for it you can get into … GOLD-DIG-GERS!” I only ever saw it when I was staying at my grandparents’ house in New Jersey during my brother’s and my annual week or two there in the summer. It was basically heaven on earth: constant attention, unrationed television, little boxes of breakfast cereal, and daily trips to the Demarest swimming pool where we only stopped swimming/Marco Polo-ing/cannonballing long enough to play knock-hockey.
Anyway, I don’t think I ever actually saw a pair of these jeans in person, but I definitely wanted to. And if I were ever lucky enough to own a pair? Look out world.
Golddigger
I love the painting and the title! I grew up in New York and actually had a pair of Golddigger jeans. I loved them and wanted to attend an open casting call for the next “Golddigger Girl.” I was not able to go because my sister was sick, which seemed unfair to me at the time. Upon reflection, I’m not sure that being a “Golddigger Girl” at age 7 would have been the right move for me anyway.
A perfect name for your painting. Of course I am a bit biased.