Quotation for the Day: Camp

Hill image from below-cited article

"Well, being 23, I’m just now learning about camp, so camp to me is just self-expression. It can be that I dress up like a woman, or I dress up like a dog, or I dress up as a house, or something that’s just super over the top and not me. I don’t want to be like myself."

--Parker Kit Hill, quoted in Matthew Schneier "‘It’s Unnatural? Absolutely.’ Just in time for its enshrinement in the Met, six experts debate camp, that celebration of artifice and exaggeration," The New York Times (April 5, 2019); the article notes that "Parker Kit Hill, 23, is a dancer, performer and model. His short videos attracted an audience of one million on the mobile platform Vine. He now works, as himself and in character as 'Parklynn,' primarily on Instagram." On camp, see.