Elsewhere Stock is a project by Elsewhere Museum Resident Artist Jane Claire Remick completed from May-June 2015. Struck by the way in which divergently gendered and racialized bodies are historically represented by dolls in the Elsewhere Museum collection, I wondered how consumers of images intereact with gendered and racialized representations in the digital age. I hope to elicit critique from the viewer around the visual and textual lanugage used in the supposedly post-racial climate of the 21st Century, as well as the represnetations used in the less recent past.

Unscientific Methods

I chose a collection of dolls from the Elsewhere Musuem collection and then searched for iStock Photo images that most resembled them, with varying levels of success.

Next, I replaced the images from the iStock website with photos of each of the dolls, but left the original iStock keywords and page attributes.

Lastly, I used only the keywords to pick out two more "similar images" from among the remaining doll portraits; each title/keyword set thus correlates with three different doll portraits.