Why Flamingos?

My love for flamingos started back when I was still a child. They were graceful and pink, and I loved pink. Plastic flamingos became incised into my imagination. When I met Robbie, now my husband of seventeen years, it was exciting to find out that he also had a passion for the pink flamingos. When we got married, we had flamingos on the top of our wedding cake. We titled the wedding „The Pink Performance‰ and Robbie wore PINK painted classic wing-tip shoes to match his cummerbund and bow tie. Some people embrace and love the plastic flamingo for all of its kitsch and glory. Others see the plastic flamingo as an indication of having bad taste. Is the flamingo an indication of social class differences? I see the plastic flamingo as an object that often is seen on the outside of what many feel is tasteful. This made me think of bringing the outside in, and this is why I have decided to include a flamingo into my room. Embracing life with joy in my heart and having the freedom to explore my imagination has definitely influenced my outlook about time, reality, and pink plastic flamingos.

Betty and Guillermo's Time and Reality

The exploration of my worldview in relation to time and reality led me to the two plastic pink flamingos in my backyard. When you buy plastic pink flamingos, they come as a pair. They are not identical, one‚s neck is standing up, and the other is stretching forward. This exploration led me to create my video, The Adventures of Betty and Guillermo. I began to explore the notion about what it would be like if these two flamingos were to explore time and reality. I wondered what these two flamingos would experience in relationship to time and reality? A few days later, on a drive in the West Texas panhandle, I noticed a sign to Earth, Texas. I thought, I have never been to Earth, how ironic. Then I thought about my pink flamingos, they also had never been to Earth. Thus, The Adventures of Betty and Guillermo. Why Betty and Guillermo? Because these are the names the plastic pink flamingos wanted.