Barbie

IDENTITY:

I decided to express my identity by taking all of my insecurities as a woman out on barbies. Barbies are the all to familiar opitime of female beauty. As someone who is so uncomfortable with her appearance, I tend to take it out on other women sort of blaming them for my insecurities...finding myself wishing that instead of being like them, they would be more like me so that I wouldn't have to change to feel better about myself. It's horrible, but some girls I just want to get really fat, and others...i wish I could make their hair ugly or sabotage their makeup. So with these Barbies, I chose one to chop off her hair and stain it so that it would represent all of the times I cut my hair and dye my hair, then become unhappy with it. Another, I wrapped her hair over her face and put a pink piece of a sack cloth on her for clothing... I took away all of the glamourous features that she came with and made her to seem anti-social. Barbies always look cute, in real life....girls have shitty days and just want to be invisible, sweats if possible, no make-up, sunglasses, and a hat...this was the best I could do. And finally, my favorite...the body factor. I dressed this one in a measuring tape because I am always conscious, on a daily basis, of my weight..how clothes are fitting, if my face is getting fatter,etc.. I marked all of the places that I want to fix with a marker and even rubbed off her breasts with sand paper and cut off her behind...hey, my body does not look like that!!I also tried to boil one but it didn't do too much, just made her head pop off..haha. For the presentation, I put them back into the boxes as if they were for sale again but with no price, daring someone to buy them...who would want a doll who looked like this?!?!?
New Generation of Barbie
8"x3"x2"
mixed media