123. Inside Every Baby Girl There’s A Woman
Title: Inside Every Baby Girl There’s a Woman
Date: 1979, according to Presentation Portfolio II entitled: NORMAN SUMNER GREEN
Subject: Baby girl
Measurements: 8 ½” W x 6 ½” D x 13 ½” H
Materials and Techniques: Legs, arms, and head of a plastic baby doll; wooden box, cutout from a reproduction postcard and/or art book
Description: The head of a plastic baby doll is attached to the top of a wooden box that stands vertically. Attached to the upper-most portion of the sides of the box are the dolls arms, which reach upwards with open palms. The long end of the box under the back of the baby’s head is open. The lower portion of the baby’s legs and its feet are attached near the bottom of the open side of the box. The baby’s feet, bottoms turned up, poke out from the inside of the box. Attached to the inside wall of the box above the plastic legs and feet is a cutout of an image of the nude back of a woman’s body, from her neck to her knees. This image connects the doll’s plastic head to its plastic arms and legs, together forming a full female body.
Signed: None
Note: Exhibited at Camden Art Centre, 1980