Pink Pop – Ryden x Barbie Video
Nature Queen
I envision Barbie as the Nature Queen, an icon of the feminine divine who presides over the natural world. While masculine energy exploits the earth and its non-human inhabitants, feminine energy reveres and nurtures the living world we are part of. With the rise of feminism and Barbie in the 1960s, we also saw the dawn of ecology and the environmental movement. Video directed by Mark Palansky.
Surrealist Ball Barbie
Barbie at the Black and White Surrealist Ball directed by Mark Palansky. Starring Alysse Fozmark.
I imagine Barbie attending a glamorous surrealist ball. In 2015, I hosted an actual surrealist ball in collaboration with Bob Self, the late great Master of Ceremonies. We tried to channel the phantasmagoric spirit of Salvador Dalí’s surrealist balls and the elegant black and white balls of Truman Capote.
The writer André Breton described Surrealism as an attempt to resolve the two states of dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory. With this painting, I have imagined Barbie attending our ball where dreams and reality converge.
