The Queen’s Story: the making of a paper woman

Made for Shanta Ranee's Empowerment exhibition

On the first day, I ordered her from a very questionable online store. She cost just, £12.90 and the read like this, If big tits, a wide mouth, juicy pussy and tight ass are your thing then you can’t go wrong with Just Jugs. Pump her up and watch those huge jugs balloon into life as you caress her curves and penetrate her again and again. Ideal for personal satisfaction or stag nights. 

I called out to poetry women as a option of dress, and I received many brilliant words. A blog was formed: http://queenofeuropebecomeswhole.blogspot.co.uk/

She arrived just a few days later, smelling strongly of plastic. She was also much smaller than I imagined, child-sized. A transformation seemed to be the most human thing to do. I wanted her to stand on her own two feet, this seemed most important.

On Friday August 3rd, I took her in a box to Artsite, Gallery No 9, which they allowed me to use free of charge (thank you Artsite!) with some PVA, flour, newspapers, a whisk, a bowl and a lot of confusion. Bethany Pope and Martin Malone came along. We blew her up, filled the room with a plastic scent and gave her a first covering. We hung her from the ceiling to dry for four days.

On Tuesday 7th August I met with artist Jill Carter and we took her on a little journey around town. Swindon seemed very taken by her, especially dressed as Mabel Watson in the Wyvern car park. Doll thought the charges for parking were daylight robbery, I noted the cliché.

For the next few days I covered her with more layers of flour, PVA and paper. One layer of kitchen towel was applied. I tried various ways of placing poetry on her body. This was not as easy as I had thought it would be.

On Friday 11th August Jill Carter arrived with camera and we made various films of Dolly going out and about. The man in the corner shop recognised his kitchen towel, ‘She is very nice, very, very nice’ he said.

We took Dolly to Jill’s garden and gave her another layer of more thoughtful wordage from newspapers. Phrases like, ‘Not plastic, Creative DNA, Just Don’t Call it Burlesque’ clothed her, but no poems. She hung in Jill’s garage for over a week and dried very nicely. ‘Well, she has been christened Vivienne by GTC. Like it!  She is fine. Still drying, has a slight sheen, which you will like. I reckon you could write a play, based on FACTS & FICTION.  Who she met along the way, rescued by housewife, cut down, taken into the daylight etc. Very nice. Could be fun. She had some visitors at Jill’s house, had some more visitors to our garage and got some oooohs and aaarghs.’

On Monday 20th she came home. Dolly looked great but as yet, no poetry. I found Jill’s type writer in my cupboard and decided to try typing directly onto newsprint…ah, this looked brilliant. Poems started to dress her, in places. I played around with news too, headlines that leapt out, meant something to me. I made a ‘bully boob’, you cannot gag a woman’s boob, everyone will listen to a boob. ‘So You Think You Can Spot a Bully’ was the boob headline…this was great catharsis after a terrible experience for me in 2010/2011 where explaining a situation felt impossible, traumatic and therefore unheard or brushed aside.

I spent all week making her more aesthetic, amazing, wonderful. I could not stop adding, tweaking…it had to stop! I decided to saw off her hand, destruction was the answer, an ultimate creation…it looked great. I called Jill to come with camera and make a film of the deconstruction. Dolly was in pieces and placed in a black bin bag. That evening, I pieced her back together and rearranged the text again. Poems were covered, some are still visible, some not. Her surface remains a place of change, like all women. 

The Queen’s sister is now on her way, Fatty Patty… She’s large and in charge! Our Fatty Patty love doll is an inflatable doll with a lot to love. Featuring three lusciously large pleasure holes, massive boobs and huge bum that demands to be spanked, Fatty Patty is a larger than life girl who takes plenty of satisfying.’ Just £18.99. I need poems on the theme of body image, please.



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