Barbie RY Flora This is a scene from

This is a scene from the Fort Mountain digital painting

while the subject’s powerful gaze and strong profile convey wisdom

she lures us into a private journey within our own obscure world of unspoken dreams and desires

manufactured

evoking a sense of stillness

Barbie RY Flora This is a scene fromI wonder if looking at the iconic dolls face so large scale and close up could make her seem more real, almost alive. (A different take, perhaps, on seeing her represented by a famous actress on a movie screen?) As viewers, can we find ourselves trying to read Barbies mind? Could we accept her as one of us? More broadly, where do we draw the line between artificial and real? That distinction grows more and more blurry as our world merges more and more