The Locating Unit takes us into the new year and althought it brings a fresh start, I couldn’t help holding on to odd things. I decided to stick with the gender/ steyotyping theme but like new year I gave it a different direction. Returning home for the holiday I found myself being awoken at five o’clock on christmas morning to overexcited four year old nephew, helpping him open numerous presents from santa all of which where unsurprisingly aimed at little boys. Whatching his excitement at playing with all of them gave me inspriation to start drawing these toys. Thiny small objects that get used in such a light-hearted pastime manage to somehow set the foundations of our gender roles in society. Clearly nobody thinks about the effects of a little boy playing with a toy gun or a small girl playing with a plastic barbie could have on their future's.
From my initial drawing's of toy's i began thinking about steyotypes of hobbies, leading to drawing animal's. I then had the idea to combine these these thing's. Barbies with dinosaur's, dinosaur's with unicorns, fish with hourse's. So now i'm starting to create a whole family made up of surreal mystical creatures.
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