Play Dead

According to a 2008 report by the Children’s Defense Fund, in the United States in 2005 over 3,000 children and youth died by gunfire. Well over half were homicides; about a third committed suicide. These works that make up this series are all being created using widely available children’s toys (e.g., purchased in thrift stores) as models. The aim of this body of work is to address the violent cultural messaging embedded in the marketing and sale of toys of war, conflict and domination.