Trash Island Barbie, Evan Sagman, 2020
From the day she was born, this Barbie knew she was different. Unlike all of the other Barbies she lacked an affliction for shiny things. At the young age of four, Barbie was on a walk with her mother, she noticed a plastic bag billowing in the wind. To Barbie it was like a diamond fluttering in the sky, she let go of her mother’s hand and raced towards the plastic bag with a fire in her eyes. It was then that she found herself in the middle of a busy street with cars racing past on each side, her fingers finally grasped the plastic goodness she desired, and in that moment Barbie found true beauty and peace. That was the 1970’s for Barbie. Now, in 2020, the self-proclaimed “Trash Island Barbie” has only one goal. That is to collect all the plastics in the world, melt them down and fuse herself with them to create a gigantic version of herself so she may walk among the clean mountains and skies. Till this day happens she waits peacefully on a discarded pink plastic dressing table surrounded by her favourite trash.