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.
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