Revolutionize the concept of beauty by enhancing the natural look away from stereotypes and constructed bodies. This is the message that the artist Mim Hammonds wants to launch in a completely alternative way: through dolls.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himRevolutionize the beauty concept enhancing the natural look away from stereotypes and constructed bodies. It is the message that the artist wants to send out Mim Hammonds in a completely alternative way: through dolls.
The dolls that we see in stores or that we give to our children are all the same: perfect bodies and faces, eye-catching makeup, whimsical clothing, top hair. An image of a woman that certainly cannot represent female beauty in all its facets.
Without hiding behind false moralisms, everyone tries to keep fit and to please themselves and others, but very often even a simple Barbie can pass a wrong message, that is what to be beautiful you must necessarily look like them.
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The artist Hammonds decided to "Restore reality", bringing the dolls back down to earth and making them look like "normal girls".
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With its upcycles recycles them, turning them into soap and water. The result is what you see in these images, between the first and the second there is a huge difference.
Without make-up, with freckles, informal and sporty clothing, the dolls become what every woman is in everyday life, without exasperation and without the rush to necessarily be perfect.
Dominella Trunfio
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