After going through major life altering emotional and abusive situations in 2009, I started using Barbie Art to express the pain and torment I was going through.
Although most of my work revolves around women’s issues, gender differences and symbolism, I am best able to express the darker side of gender conflict with Barbies. Barbie is a great medium because everyone has some stereotypical idea of Barbie and can relate to her as an iconic symbol of women regardless of how twisted and dysfunctional it may be. I feel Barbie represents what the world expects women to be, look like and perform like and who better to show how absurd that expectation is than Barbie herself? I hope these funny yet poignant sculptures provoke thought and conversation around the socially influenced insanity we, as women, often experience and eventually…hopefully… find ourselves liberated from.