We've never quite gotten past our love-hate relationship with Barbie. We begged Santa to bring us the iconic doll, but once we had her in our grasp, the yearning morphed into heated schoolyard debates: What was the deal with her feet? Why couldn’t she stand without falling over? Why did she make us feel so inadequate in our training bras?
Artist Margaux Lange takes this curious fascination to a whole other level, crafting jewelry made of disembodied Barbies in her Brooklyn, N.Y. workshop. A hand dangles from a sterling silver lariat necklace, those deer-in-headlights eyes peer out from earrings and the doll's perma-smile gets encased in a ring of red resin. Each is the perfect gift for the Barbie love-hater in your life.
written on Friday Nov 16, 2007
barbie, repurposed.
