Fallen Princesses

Obviously, I am deeply offended by these. It's not like Disney holds some sort of sacred position in my heart and mind and soul and our culture(err...) but I think that the stories themselves are steeped in enough victimization and tumultuous dark themes that they need not be repositioned (The artist talks about seeing the bloody beginnings of these stories in Grimms brothers which I think acknowlages my point) and this kind of re-imagining assumes the original Disney works don't have anything sinister in them and that the stories must be retold in a modern setting for them to be properly juxaposed. I think they ARE juxaposed adequately exactly the way they are in pop culture. Some modern philosophers posit that disney exists so that we can stand in the parkinglot and say "THATS NOT REAL, THIS IS REAL" and these pictures further that sentiment because they assume a juxaposition of the real and the fantasy where I am a firm believer that we are not looking at fantasy, but the hyperreal, and positioning "Fallen Princesses" in these settings is to assume that they are not fallen to begin with and that somehow the settings you have chosen are more real than the ones the princesses currently occupy - when what I think is that their current position in disneyland, in their stories and in their rampant commodification is MORE REAL than what you are looking at in this picture. And certinly more disconcerting.