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Longing Island
Dolls are cultural objects that embody our values. They are shaped by the ideas, obsessions, fashions, and technologies of the society that produces them. Clues regarding what members of a cultural group consider necessary, true, and desirable can be found in the construction, use, and display of dolls. They inspire endless imaginings in the person to whom they belong. As a child plays with a doll, these very ideas about the world she is growing into and her role within it, are instilled within the child. As Rimi plays with her dolls, she understands the migration that her parents are making. The doll becomes a tool to inspire a little girl to make other kinds of life choices. What could be an alternative set of values that are encoded into dolls? If we reimagine the flesh coloured plastic, what else might we play with and how could this change ourselves?
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