Laurie Simmons most recent work includes the use a 'Love Doll' inwhere she transforms her own home into a 'Dolls House' and uses the doll as a giant toy depicting a diary from day to day as 'she' becomes more familiure with the space and the environment. 'Geisha Song' promotes the same quality of sadness of her earlier works but engages adult fantasies in a seemless reality which is neither home nor theatre. Her works are quite feminist in focus indicating to the fake, 'Plastic' icons in the media today but in a playful subtle yet meaningful way; after watching the 'Geisha Song' you feel sympathy and compassion towards the 'love doll' in a very realisticly human way, forgetting she is in fact just a doll.
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