Buggerfly Barbie
On the Friends of Jaffa WhatsApp group, Itamar who has opened up and new party shop near me was offering kits to make a butterfly and he was going to post them on social media. I popped along but it was all stuff I had and I had some ideas. I had a spare Barbie head and so that could go on. When speaking to Galina she reminded me about all the dead cockroaches I had collected. Ah ha. They could become the wings. I glued and them embroidered them in, used a black hair clip for the body, gave her earrings and antennae using puff paint with beads at the end. Hey Presto – not sure Itamar will put it on his instagram – it is rather creapy!
I had some very interesting feedback from my friend Christian that I have decided to include.
Did you feel any urges to kill and eat people lately? 😬
Maybe the butterfly in the upper right corner is the reality anchor though, and the disturbing rest is just expression of the unconscious. In Buddhism, if you dream about creepy insects, it is seen as a sign of purification – the difficult impressions are leaving the mind and will cause no difficulties in the future. In this context, the eggs could be more hopeful – the probability of good things emerging is increased after the purification. 👍
… And the cockroaches are her wings, allowing her to fly… Wow.
Anyhow, it looks like a very strong piece to me. I hope it doesn’t smell bad.
I showed this to a father of a patient and he said. The eggs were for life, the cockroaches for death and the female being is perfect as Barbie is perfect. Actually he said a lot more but I have a terrible short term memory!
Using artificial intelligence to change a renowned piece of art
I went to an amazing lecture about Hieronymus Bosch and his famous painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. As it is 500 years old, there have been many interpretations including recent ones using artificial intelligence. It is a triptych with heaven on the left, earth in the centre and hell on the right.
I copied this image into Chat GPT and asked it to redraw all the figures as Ken and Barbie. It came up with this
This felt a bit too blue and pink so I asked chat GPT to redraw it with all the colours of the rainbow! And it came up with a LGBT+ version with rainbows!
I wanted chat GPT to draw it with lots of colours but not as a rainbow. However the people looked rather modest in their outlook and rather dull. When I tried again this AI tool told me I had used up my free goes!
Freezing Barbie in ice and then melting her
I went to an exhibition in the Amiad gallery and it had two photos of flowers in resin. I thought I would reinterpret this with ice. I had to find the right sized receptacle and a Barbie that could fit inside.
This Barbie can fold up quite small – she can actually cross her legs so she is to become Buddhist Barbie soon! Here she is having been frozen in a round pyrex bowl and slowly defrosted.
I had the Barbie who was crocheted into a dress and was going to be made into Coffin Barbie – where her dress extends into a coffin. She is already with her bells as Victorians were often buried with bells in case they weren’t actually dead and woke up. They then could be heard underground. She could fit in a pyrex rectangular dish of Tova’s.
This to show the set up. The frozen dish with the Barbie sat on a radiator with my i-phone set at time-lapse. It is held still on with a tripod in a bowl of avocados and there is an extra bright light to illuminate the ice melting.
A Wigwam for Barbies
I was offered a cat play toy but took too long to collect it. It was always going to be for Barbie art and not the cats. So I improvised and used the bamboo sticks that Lucy gave me. Hey presto.
The comments were the best
Lovely now we can just start a campfire underneath Debby
They are looking slightly like they are about to be given the Joan of Arc treatment and burnt at the stake! 😂😂 Fran
Fascinating! This is an alien uplifting-experiment. The Barbies have been caught by aliens with a native American cultural connection. (Native Americans are descendants from aliens who crash landed a long time ago in north America.) So these aliens cought them and fixed them to their transcendence structure. It has a slight resemblance to the stakes that the American natives used for torturing, but has a different purpose, that got lost to the their crash-landed relatives over the 3000 years that they had to live on earth without connection to their culture. It is used by the aliens to achieve transcendence. It works on the outer level with fasting and fixation, so there is some resemblance to the practice of the native Americans. Only after transcendence are you considered a grown up in this alien society. They picked Barbies, because to them they looked very close to what they would consider high potential teenagers. The aliens are looking forward to making contact with humans from earth, but it only makes sense to them after humans are transcended. So this transcendence experiment is part of their outreach program. Very exciting! Let’s hope it turns out well!
BTW, the aliens that crash landed on earth were teenagers (pre-transcendence) who stole away on a rogue trip with a ship one of them “borrowed” from their parents when they were out visiting friends one night. 🤷♂️ So next to the hopeful essence, there is also an obscure cautionary element in this piece. Christian
I added some more mesh and Barbies.
Barbie Brompton Bag
Leah and her siblings along with their mother and old friend of mine, Ayala made this Barbie Brompton Bike bag with 4 real actual Barbies in the front pocket.
