Princess Almost Perfect, 2000

Digital printing and collage, toddler’s dress, acrylic, ink, silk, printed matter, found objects.

Inspired by the transformation through beauty pageants of little girls into miniature sex kittens
and the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey. A hand cut crown shaped book rests inside a gold toddler’s dress, its pages filled with the faces of girls, altered with the eyes or lips of heavily made-up women.

13 x 9.5 x 9 inches, closed
13 x 17.5 x 3 inches, opened.
Inset crown shaped book 5 x 7 inches, Unique