WELCOME TO LAURA ZUSPAN!

This is Dolly (a rag-doll) that I have been exploring different lifestyles with and role-playing an intimacy typically associated with romantic human relationships. Our desire is to examine growing frustration in climate change and collective human failure and behaviors. I’ve drawn on the historical manifestations of the doll and its role in culturally conditioning children in appropriate behaviors in nurturing, relationships and procreation. This project blossomed out of my discomfort with reproduction in a time when overpopulation, pollution and natural resources are at a global tipping point. Below is an image of us in a solar powered air steam that we inhabited.

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