40 days of art

11

Obsolete

I met my friend Ashley Hardy through Sal and we hit it off almost instantly. We lived 5 houses down from each other and we would cook delicious vegetarian meals and do bits where we were two disgruntled mothers from Queens complaining about how our sons never call. “Ida, my son never calls, he breaks my heart. Next time he comes to see me I will push him back inside my womb so he won’t have a choice but to talk to me.” I digress…

I was in a thrift store one day and  found these two giant barbies. I instantly texted a photo to Ashley and told her we had to do something with them. We then devised a plan on how to turn these freaky toys into art. We landed on the idea of decorating the dolls with obsolete technology to make them look like extinct creatures. We cut hundreds of feathers from phone books, ripped out the ribbons from VHS tapes to make fringe and stripped wires to make tufts of chest hair. This project took forever but it was great because Ashley and I were just laughing and eating vegan chicken salad the whole time, so the hours flew by.

We built a little nest out of VHS tape and grocery bags, and the whole concept was that these ancient creatures were discovered and it was all tied up in commentary of the wastefulness of society and the horribleness of planned obsolescence.