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Up the cut © Carolyn Bayliss, 2008 | ||||||
I placed an advert on gumtree.com on the lines of "we live in a world of genital reconstruction, airbrushing and hard core porn. What type of vagina have we created?" I then invited people to make a vagina for The Woman who had no Vagina in any art form. John from Oxford got in touch with me and I went to meet him one Saturday and photograph the doll. |
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| 7"x5" Photograph | 7"x5" Postcards | ||||||
£2.50 plus £2.00 postage |
10 postcards £8 plus £2.00 postage |
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| 8"x10" Photograph | |||||||
£6.00 plus £2.00 postage |
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I asked John for a comment for the art work and he responded with "i suggested that the doll be photographed with a fake vagina sex toy as I trhought this would add a sense of irony and humour to her work. the message I was trying to convey was that a body (doll) without a vagina is like a fake person. therefore a fake vagina without a body is also a fake person, so together they are an ironic statement of the human form as when you put them together in a picture they will do not represent the true value or form of a womans body. |
As an aside I stayed in touch with John for several months after the project and then saw that he was looking to buy fake notes (monetary) on gumtree. I suppose we do live in a fake world. |
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