Sculpture Dolls are important tools in conditioning children for the adult roles they are expected to take in society. For them, "Barbie" is the archetypal adult they are to emulate; baby dolls are the archetypal children they anticipate producing. Dolls have become icons for many people. But they are merely mass-produced pieces of plastic. Stripped down and altered, the once-innocuous toy becomes a homonculus; a sexless, miniature representation of a human, transformed in an almost supernatural manner. This transformation is analogous to that which destroys childhood fantasies of a perfect world: the moment we realize the inevitability of death and decay.

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