Bad Barbie World

Ontario artist Mariel Clayton isn’t the first social commentator to decry Barbie’s negative effect on society, and she definitely won’t be the last. But she just might be the most grisly.

Her art features Barbie in myriad situations that would put Mattel in a tizzy. Sex, bondage, suicide, murder — it’s all there, in tiny detail.

 

Why Barbie?

"Because I hate Barbie. I intensely dislike the stereotype that the “ideal” female fits no current authentic female form."

"You can’t get to be Barbie without an ocean’s worth of peroxide, 27 plastic surgeries and a complete lack of intelligence, so it irritates me immensely that this is the toy of choice women give to their daughters to emulate,” says artist Mariel Clayton. “Behind the vacuous perpetual lipsticked-smile and soulless eyes lurks the black heart of the true sociopath, just like in real life...

 

For complete interview with the artist, read“Bad Barbie: TheWorks of Mariel Clayton.”

 For more photos, visit Clayton’s website and Flickr and Facebook