The body of work here is a composed photograph that was constructed consisting of a formally made soft sculpture, keeping in mind the notions of agency or lack thereof. Mark-making was one of the more important aspects of the sculpture itself. The body of the sculpture was set on a template of a sex doll, with certain parts of the body accentuated / exaggerated. The pastel rendering of the breast and the thigh gives off a comparatively evocative visual to an otherwise mannequin-like image.
There is a black thread coming from the back of the doll, creating a line at the end of the pelvis, alluding to a vagina. The media used were mainly acrylic and oil pastels. The colors used in the image are highly saturated. Hues of pink, yellow, and blue are used. The marks on the body mimic a microscopic view of the epidermis. A plethora of scavenged images were used, including gouged eyes from newspaper and magazine cutouts. The writing on the face of the doll reads, “Drawing showing instrument penetrating between the eyeball and upper eyelid, through the orbital plate into the white matter in the frontal lobe,” a quote taken from Sychosurgery by Freeman and Watts. The book details the process of transorbital lobotomy (during this time, I was fascinated by the process of lobotomy due to the sheer number of female patients it bosted; a study in America stated 60% of women, and in Ontario, Canada, 74%).