ROTATE YOUR PHONE HORIZONTALLY

Polly’s Playhouse

ACRYLIC ON CARDBOARD, VINYL STICKERS, READERS, DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON SMART PHONE

Polly’s Playhouse is a toy, specifically a stereoscope, but for whom? Appropriating a visual language developed for young girls & children complete with hot pink DIY stickers, the playhouse reimagines a peep show amidst 1980’s Times Square in NYC. The player accesses the “show” by scanning the QR code using their smart phone. The show takes the viewer along on an activity with Polly Porn Star (a character I created via vintage printed porn). Her adventures, such as “Polly Does Senior Portraits”, challenge the viewer to view Polly as a young girl engaged in fun life activities as herself, or as a delight served up for the pleasure of others. The Porn Star, the summit of feminine performance, and presented in the traditional medium of pornography, is re-photographed in attempt to re-visualize her image. The experience walks a tight rope begging the question for whom is Polly? Are toys & performative characters like “Polly” for children’s play or practice for their developing feminine identities to be performed for a future audience.