All Dolled Up
My thought process
This series of images were all taken inspired by a feeling of emptyness I was feeling at the time. I dressed myself up as a barbie doll as, to me, the doll represents this feeling perfectly. At the time I felt as if I could not express myself – my mind was often blank and it was like I was a shell of a person; just like a doll.
These images are symbolic of caring too much about how you look on the outside, and not caring enough about how you feel on the inside. I symbolised this through the heavy makeup, tearstain, and through my poses (looking into a mirror).
The image below is all about feeling unable to express how you feel on the inside. My face has a neutral expression, while my face in the reflection is screaming.
In this set of images, I am mostly sat on top of the table. In the last two images I took, I flipped the table upside down, symbolising that the tables are turning – I wanted to make a change to how I was feeling. I wanted to stop feeling like a shell of a person and put some life back into myself.
