shaped culture. Teenagers are always at the forefront of the next wave of culture, but we’re at the point now where that aesthetic has been ripped off or used by brands and pop stars. It’s a really different thing than it was when we just had girls in their bedrooms creating online vision boards for their lives.

AR: What are you working on now?

KD: I just did a performance art piece, #HelloSelfie. It’s six women dressed in jeans, underwear, bras, and tops, covered in Hello Kitty stickers, wigs and bows. I wore a clear plastic dress which had melting Hello Kittys on it. We went out in public and took selfies for two hours straight. People were coming up to us; they were taking pictures with us. They were generally amazed, bewildered, and confused by us. It’s my way of closing out the Tumblr project. That moment of time in which that aesthetic developed is over now. I really wanted to take it offline, bring it into a public space. 

AR: Was it how you’d imagined it would be?

KD: It was better than I imagined. As we were walking down the street people were automatically pulling out their phones, they just knew exactly what to do. The best thing was that people took so many selfies of themselves when they saw us taking selfies. I thought that was really beautiful. One of the things that's bothered me is that people have criticized teen girls for being so narcissistic, for taking so many selfies. And yet, when we started unabashedly taking selfies, they all began to take selfies too. We all are this way; it’s not just teen girls. They just tend to be the scapegoat.

AR: Can you explain why you chose to use stickers? Sorry if that’s a dumb question, I’m just very curious.