• Bronze
• 21”x11” including base
• Limited Edition

At first glance she is a joyous celebration of the female form. An exuberant modern expression of an ultra-feminine figure and frills. On a secondary level, she reflects women’s adoption of a new cultural norm as it relates to fashionable trends in body archetypes. She has unnatural body proportions in the ultra-small waist, perky breasts and rear end. The arms and legs which represent ability are replaced with frilly lace, along with the brain and mouth. Today, cosmetic surgery and injectables have gone from status symbols to becoming the norm, and the un-altered natural body is now passé, this piece begs the question, “Are we elevating the female form to achieve an ideal or are we just objectifying ourselves and conforming to an ideal that is being sold to us?”