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SUPER MANGLE DOLL: This image began as a simple photograph for my black and white photography I course taken during my sophomore year at Champlain College up in Burlington, VT. I was browsing for ugly dolls one day in a craft store and found all of these individually packaged half-doll bodies that were supposedly to be used for making a tissue box cover with. I, however, had different plans for this hollow half-dolly. I purchased a blonde half-dolly, and as soon as I got home quickly took a black marker to her face and blacked out her eyes and gave her sinister eye brows as well. Then, for trash-value, I chose to give her an upside-down star tattoo on one arm, and the word "69er" on the other arm (that was an actual tattoo on the arm of one of our underprivileged 19-year-old mother-of-4 neighbors that my housemates and I lived across the street from in Vermont. Its truly a tattoo that I find too hysterical to leave alone.) The doll was given the name "Mangle Doll" simply because she is only half of a dolll, and is indeed mangled in my terms. I had always wanted the perfect model for my photography projects, and I felt that with Mangle Doll I had found that model. In my eyes, Mangle Doll was my own personal Gia. A whole roll of film was taken for the Mangle Doll series, and the one you are viewing is the one I decided to make into the one and only 'Super Mangle Doll' image. The Chinese lettering has no symbolic meaning or stands for any beliefs I wish to shove into the faces of others, but it is merely a newspaper I found outside of my apartment on the ground next to the dumpster that I unfortuantly get to share with the Chinese restuarant next door. |