At an Impasse!

I don’t know what direction to take this in, and I really need to decide! Quickly!

OPTIONS..

• Dolls as ideals/Alice in Wonderland – “Drink me”
• Magazines/advertising/the sale of the idea

Pros of Dolls/Alice:

• Works as a good visual metaphor for ‘the ideal’
• Calls Barbie and Bratz etc to mind
• Value based purely on aesthetics; nothing else to them
• Childhood connotations; focus placed on the effect that intense scrutiny and early sexualisation has on young girls
• Mass manufactured
• Drink me/eat me: induces physical change in order to bring eater/drinker to appropriate size
• Key with Drink Me bottle could be symbolic in and of itself

Pros of Magazines/Ads

• Context is appropriate
• Text easily incorporated

Cons of Dolls/Alice

• Maybe too many ideas combined

Cons of Magazines/Ads

• Too obvious?
• Too preachy?

I’m really just going to have to start drawing these out and see where they go.