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| Binding Barbie, Chaz Howkins, photograph, 2015 |
I decided that I wanted to change the focus of my work from 'corruption of childhood innocence' to gender identity. While using Barbies as my subject matter for the majority of last year's work, I never got around to creating the gender queer Barbie I planned to. I thought creating a transgender Barbie would be a good way to link the two themes together and give me a starting point for exploring gender identity.