Day Two: The Making of Amber Doll
In 2007, I commissioned the production of a lifelike sex doll, a RealDoll, made of a posable PVC skeleton and silicone flesh, in my exact likeness. My doll, Amber Doll, began as a Styrofoam printout of a digital scan of my head. Her face was then customsculpted and later combined with the doll manufacturer s existing, Body, 8 female doll mold. After completing, The MakingOf Amber Doll and Las Vegas Wedding Ceremony (both 2007), Amber Doll and I went on to disrupt wedding receptions, rollerskating rinks, football tailgating parties, theme parks, and adult industry conventions. In the resulting series, To Have, To Hold, and To Violate: Amber and Doll, ideas surrounding agency and objectification are questioned, as are ideas about the success or failure of negotiating power through one s own participation in a cultural narrative that declares women as objects. My work with Amber Doll, herself a literal object, deals with such themes through an oftentim
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