Ella Grimbert-Curtis
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Prompt: Project Description: In Multimedia Terrain, students will work to define an aspect of an imagined world using a variety of physical multimedia materials, emphasised by the use of found objects. Incorporating found materials in object-making practices can provide authenticity, texture, and a distinct narrative dimension, supporting the overall realism and depth of the created environment.
This garment tells us about an advanced society many years in the future that did not understand what the remains of the previous civilisation looked like. After humans went extinct, only the severed heads from Barbie dolls survived. The new society believed these doll heads were used to represent what they believed was the “ideal” form of humans prior to the extinction, and thus began to worship them. Eventually, the doll heads became revered as symbols of beauty, power, and divine status. When priestesses and other powerful people participate in rituals, they are wearing ceremonial attire that is covered in Barbie heads; by wearing this attire, these individuals demonstrate their authority as well as their connection to what they believe to be holy individuals.