embroidery on rubber, found material, thread and found object

“The little girl cannot incarnate herself in any part of herself. To compensate for this and to serve her as alter ego, she is given a foreign object: a doll. It should be noted that in French the word poupee (doll) is also applied to the bandage around a wounded finger’ a dressed-up finger, distinguished from the others, is regarded with amusement and a kind of pride, the child shows signs of the process of identification by his talk to it. But it is a statuette with a human face- or, lacking, an ear of corn, even a piece of wood – which will most satisfyingly serve the girl as substitute for that double, that natural playting: a penis”
Simone d Beauvoir (The second sex)

“fancy fool”