AS Is #194

Dana Davis As Is photograph Dark Whimsy Barbie
$300.00
Artist: danapics
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I saw these dolls in a thrift store I frequent.  A week later I saw them again, hanging in their bags.  Pictures of them played in my mind.  Barbie, as with Venuses before her, can initiate travel into worlds both mysterious and familiar. I have photographed them pretty much as they were; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed.  As surely as knowing limits seeing, what I say here will guide your experience with this work.  It is like, upon showing you a Rorschach blot, I ask, "Do you see the rabbit?".  (This is so even if you think it's not a very good rabbit.)  I will only suggest that art which engages the imagination will first reflect the familiar but must also contain windows of ambiguity  where understanding is suspended and the mind can play. 

Medium: 
Archival Ink Jet print
Series: 
As Is
Edition: 
25
Framed: 
16 by 20