Which do you prefer? Dismembered body part earrings, or plastic boobie pendants?
I like to mutilate my Barbies as much as the next girl,* but I’m still a little uncomfortable with wearing broken Barbies as jewelry.
via Trina.
*No, really. As a child, Barbie mutilation was a leading sport in my house.
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I mutilated mine too. Apparently a lot of little girls do, I read a study on it.
I prefer none of them.. *shudder* only body parts I’ll use as jewellery are fangs and/or teeth xD
the boobs are kind of funny, if only cuz they took me by surprise. thats not for little girls is it?
We used to use ours for bungee jumping, with the cord around her neck rather than her feet because her feet were too small. Also, she was regularly beaten up by my She-Ra action figure
It’s funny because I hate Barbie, and went looking for some dead barbie pictures for fun, only to find them not so fun. Am I the only one who is a little ambivalent — I mean I want her dead because of what she symbloizes (to me), but as soon as I see her mutilated or drowned or cut into pieces she symbolizes something else altogether…
The artist says:
from her website.
I bolded the stuff I thought was interesting.
It’s telling that the responses to this art are all “I did [blank] to my Barbie when I was a little girl.” My own response: I didn’t play much with Barbie, but when I did, I cut her hair off and gave her cuter, sometimes very short hairstyles.
I saw these more as a statement on the body and on commercialization of our bodies. The artist’s statement on Barbie becoming an accessory is interesting as well, but the jewelry speaks more to me on the level of consumer objectification. I guess all of that could be boiled down to “It’s supposed to be disturbing”.
The artist’s portfolio also features quite a few pieces using “Ken” parts–some of them are quite interesting. I find it disturbing and appealing, not from an “I hate Barbie” sort of view, but I like how the art has elicited such different reactions from people.
I know that some people don’t like barbie, but it bothers me that someone thinks she deserves to die this way.
I turned my sister’s Barbies into Klingons with Silly Putty.
I actually rather like both of those. But then I do wear human teeth (that aren’t mine) and coveted the fake human flesh clothes I found online ages ago.
I don’t know, I would totally wear these with ironic 50′s esque ladylike dresses to goth night or a Halloween party or something.
Ok so I have to say I like the earings. Granted I’d like them much more without the fetishistic dismembered women’s body parts aspect, like say if they were more gender ambiguous for instance. Then I’d so wear them so often.
I like that juxtaposition Vanessa!
I knew an artist who stuck a hole bunch of naked barbies on some floral foam and then sprayed the whole thing bright red, their hair standing up and their arms and legs entwined and stretched out as if trapped.
With the right dress-up the jewelry speaks the perfect irony.
Yeah I would totally wear those too. It seems more ironic and campy than those creepy lady toilets you always see.
I LOVE this jewelry. I don’t find it disturbing in the least. I actually think it is a refreshing transformation. I am usually pretty sensitive to violent imagery, yet these pieces do not speak “dismemberment” to me. Each “part” seems to stand as its form within a new body. If they were dripping fake Barbie blood or something like that it would be a different story. I can’t think of a more edifying way of redefining such a prolific, destructive icon.