hayley barker from the CAPSIZED series At the heart of the 2005 series of drawings entitled "Capsized," is the search for a visual representation of the sensation of being trapped, powerless, held below an impenetrable surface, suffocating, or simply being thrown off balance. All are observational
drawings of my dolls, which date from the 1950’s and 60’s.
These dolls symbolize a peculiar flavor of loss of security: the body of
the doll is a body that cannot
control its own actions; a body that must inhabit the space it helplessly
finds itself in. The heightened emotionality of a desperate moment
is the main focus of these pieces. My goal is that individually, and as
a
series, each piece transcends the topical and immediate and moves into
a place that reflects a kind of historic female melancholy, or a physical
knowing of what true loss is. |
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