Image 3 responses

Germany
Uwe Terton

This photo of an angel with a gown made out of valuable fabrics holding a chain made up by golden pearls has a very unhappy face and dead cold eyes. The colours of the image are mainly warm and cosy just like the colours of the room which is lit by candle light. So this could be an angel representing Christmas in the northern countries of Europe . Why is the angel so unhappy? Maybe because many people get drunk on Christmas and beat up their kids. Christmas is in a time where there is not much daylight. The darkness makes people depressive. It is also the time when the year ends and a new year starts soon. So people think about their lives and sometimes they recognize how sad their life is then they drink a lot, commit suicide and I don't know what…this makes the angel very sad so that she had to cry so much till her eyes disappeared, leaving just two dead eye socket.

China
Ren Wei

This image has a beautiful doll which makes me think of Barbie Doll. The doll's clothes and beads also make me think of the extravagant life of some rich ladies in Europe in Middle Ages, especially Russians.

Thailand
Prahm Janpasa

This image reminds me of my time in Germany because this doll looks more like western and I have seen them when I was there. It also looks like a queen, princess or angel doll. Probably when I walked pass the antique shops in Europe . They normally have this sort of doll in the shop.

Borneo
Rainadi Damursyah

This picture reminds me of the girls in late 70's to 80's where most of them might have this doll (looks like an old version of Barbie doll). This picture also reminds me of my sister who once likes to collect these kind of thing. Another thing that come across my mind is that this doll somehow gives me a picture of a Japanese handcraft doll that looks like a Barbie doll, but they put on a very small Kimono (traditional Japanese dress) on the doll.

Tonga
Kane Satui

Porcelain doll; a collector's item or part of a collection, on display in a toy store. Shrine; a part of a memorial/shrine. Nativity set/party theme; a part of the Christmas nativity theme; a part of an event/party theme, like a table centre piece.

Indonesia
Henra Nugraha

This image reminds me of a movie called ‘Chucky', where in this movie a cursed doll becomes to life and start killing people who own it.

India
Gurinder Singh

The picture shows a beautiful girl dressed like a barbie and looks bit worried about her future. She may be worried regarding her marriage in order to search for her loving partner.

Bangladesh
Fazle Elahi Ibne Nasir

This is a very colourful and bright image. In the image there is a little doll standing with vivid dress and ornaments. The doll's shape is a girl kid. In my culture we always say kids are just like angel or they are sort of representative of angel. Angels are innocent, just like them. Kids are also innocent. Kids don't know which is good or bad or dangerous. They are always charming and beautiful. I believe the smile of earth is flower and the smile of flowers are kids.

Slovenia
Ursula Jasovec

A moment stopped in a time, flying by
Lutka, barbika, angel, 20ta leta 19. stoletja, jazz, biseri, ustvarjalnost in umetnost izdelovanja nakita, milina
Dekle, ki se mirno naslanja na zid, premišljuje o preteklem dnevu in caka nekoga. Napravljena je, da gre na ples/gala predstavo, v opero … je slavna osebnost, premišljuje kaj je dosegla v svojem življenju in cesa vse še ni mogla doseci ravno zaradi svoje slave, ceprav je bila že na mnogih krajih in že veliko videla …
Gracefulness of a young girl, prepared to go to an event, she will never forget, but whilst she's waiting for somebody to pick her up, she's thinking of her life-what she had missed and what she used to wish to do, but she cannot do now, because of an ever changing world, which drives madly her life quckly to an end … she wants to relax, to stop in time and do something unforgettable.
Nekoliko zabrisana slika, kot cas v katerem je in v katerem se hoce ustaviti in ga ne le preživeti, ampak preživotariti!

India
Kamalpreet Singh

This picture looks like a new sad barbie doll's model in the market for the Xmas decoration for Xmas in the shop.

China
Dandan Sun

This picture shows a toy, looks like a queen. Also she has a pair of wings, so it seems she comes from heaven. It has been decorated very pretty and graceful, so it should belong to a rich person.

Indonesia
Intan Nurcahya

This picture shows an angel ornament of a Christmas tree. This might indicate that Christmas is near or it is the time of Christmas itself. Angel symbolises peace and joy, which is what Christmas spirit is all about. Decorating a Christmas tree with family is one of the joyous activities. Everyone gets to hang ornaments together, laughing and joking and admiring what a great job done as a family after the beautiful and shiny tree is fully decorated. Not only that, presents from family and friends occupied the base of the tree waiting to be unwrapped on the morning of Christmas day by eager little family members. Christmas is one of the happiest moments in the year, though Christmas moments may last for a short time, however, the Christmas spirit in each of us should last a life time. That is why the symbol of angel is there to remind each and everyone to share, give to others.

West Sahara
Oruntomigbekele Fasina

Beauty in red
Beauty is gorgeous
Beauty is female
Beauty is bold

Taiwan
Yu-Ling Lin

This doll may be princess. She is not allowed to do the things what she wants. She has no freedom and not used to communication with people.

Germany
Christiane Wildt

This picture shows a rich woman stand for wealthy, show girl. She's wearing a very jewellery dress to show that she can finance all the things she'd like to buy and to do. I associate her just a little bit with Marilyn Monroe. But the surrounding isn't very nice, it looks dark and unfriendly. The same is her face, it looks not very glad. She's unhappy or sad. Maybe she's money but she's missing something. Her face is without love, the eyes are dark and not very glamorous. I think she doesn't wanna stay in this upper-class dress. While she looks rich – I think she's a very poor person because she is still missing something (love, fun, happiness) which she could probably have in a normal life. She's alone in a society in which only money and jewels count.

Turkey
Ramazan Cin

Girl in very good clothes and with necklace in this image gives me idea of rich girls never stop to buy luxury things for themselves. This makes me feel so sorry about people who works to earn small amount of money to feed their family.

China
Dong Ma

A young white queen dressed up like a goddess. All the gold chain and the colour represent luxury.

Indonesia
Priscilla Hermali

This picture reminds me of an angel on top of Christmas tree that my family had when I was probably 6 years old. My family at that time was into foreign things.

Taiwan
Wang I Sheng

This picture make me think about sad, lonely, kingdom. In this picture, it make me feel someone is rich, but always be alone, so it also make me feel about sad.

China
Xiao Hou

It's magnificent and clean. It should belong to the little princess or maid of honour.

Taiwan
Tony Hsu

Barbie Doll. This picture reminds me how the rich people really look like.

Russia
George Kesselman

Nostalgia; New Years decoration. In Russia instead of Christmas the New Year is celebrated because of the communist legacy that prohibited celebration of one's faith other if it was faith in "bright future of communism".

Taiwan
Aska Weng

A terrible looking doll is standing somewhere in the young girl's room. From my opinion it's gross and disgusting; it will make me puke if it is in my house A cute doll is excite to be alive! And I'll feel very uncomfortable if this little thing like that is walking around then I'll escape from it.

Hong Kong
Yu Hoi

A valuable and expensive toy but it look like fake, not real, not life, rich but not freedom. It look like a lady live in a palace who has a comfortable and richly living but not happiness.

Camaroon
Pascal G Bekono

Cette image représente une poupée blanche assisse sur une trône en pierre , avec une longue chaîne autour du cou, entouré d'un collier de perle.

Malawi
Code Admore Sangala

Face like a goddess of love
And like a supermodel on her photoshoot, still, it
stands
Dressed in fur coat, by the neck a long necklace hangs
The lifeless hands amazingly holds beautiful beads
Her outfit enslaves the window shoppers
As they walk out a million dollars less

Burma
Theingi Tun

For all your beauty
Do you cry?
For all your grandeur
Do you smile?
For all your richness
Do you live?
For all those moments
What would you give?
For the love of a child
And a kiss?

Haiti
Francklin Pierre

When I saw this picture  for the first time, I said oh! and a kind of fear pervades me. I had been afraid of the picture. I cannot explain exactly what I felt. Right away I feel like I did not want to participate in project anymore. Many ideas came to my mind. And they were about sorcery, frankly they were things which frighten me and which make me also doubt. It was the first picture of the project that I have seen. 

Hong Kong
Ka-Man Yim

I love to play Barbie when I was little. I treated her as my daughter, changing her hair style and clothing every day. As time goes by, Barbie has been left behind in my life.

French-Canada
Simon Gargonne

Tes bijoux et tes apparats d'un autre temps,
Poupée de tiroirs poussiéreux,
Tu n'as plus l'âge, de porter tes robes de taffetas,
Tes fourrures inutiles,
Regardes toi, mistinguette des bacs à sable !

Taiwan
Szu-Hui Wu

The girl look like is unhappy seat there waiting someone to give her an order. She doesn't have any freedom because her life has been control by human.

Malaysia
Pauline Hui Ying Ooi

It's no doubt to me that this dolly looks like an English / Victorian style dolly judging from her dressing. The doll is probably on display at the mall or placed on a little girl's play house. Then I thought of little girls (for some reason, I imagined blonde chubby cute little girls probably around the age of 4 – 8 years old dressed up girlishly in fluffy dress playing with their dollies. Dolls might be girls' best friends because it reminded me of my sisters and her dolls. She named her dolly as Catherine who happened to be her nanny's name. She talked to her doll and brought her everywhere she went. It became so worn out and torn that mom secretly hide it away from her but I remembered seeing her being sad and cried all day long.

Philippines
Geri Niemi

Vanity

Sri Lanka
Asanga Pradeep S. Coorey

Women's are naturally smooth and sensitive. Therefore world history shows that most time men stand in the ruling of the world. But rarely women had change to control the world or one country or one society as a ruler or queen. Referring to this picture it seems like ancient queen or an angel who had very proud situation or respectable situation. But the important thing in this picture is that how hardly costumes and other fancy thin prepared to cover this woman's body. The body seems to be small but the covering so big and fancy. The idea is that external things can't be used to hide the reality. The costume is proud but still there is smooth and sensitivity on women's face. For example this is like a beautiful flower seen hidden and among the rough and black stones.

Jamaica
Tamoy Singh

She always wanted a doll
A beautiful one
Porcelain white skin,
Long flowing dress
Lined with golden beads
And when she got one
She named it ‘Princess'
But her friends laughed,
‘The doll is so white… it does not match your skin'
They made her cry
Because she loved her ‘Princess'
‘So what if it does not match my skin…I thought we were all the same'
They still laughed
As she walked away in tears she held her Princess tightly
She didn't care about what they said
Because she always remembered that…
She always wanted a doll
A beautiful one
Porcelain white skin,
Long flowing dress
Lined with golden beads
And when she got one
She named it ‘Princess'

India
Vinita Agarwal

To me this image, had a darkness to it, even though what it is depicting is so 'girly', feminine and childlike. I guess what came into my mind, was the idea of remembering a time in one's childhood that has now past. That house now longer has anyone living there, the doll is slightly deteriorating, and has become almost ghostly. In response to this image I wrote the following poem:

Sparkling and soft,
Like a shimmer of pink,
Young girls gleam with lace and dust,
With the blurriness of maturity,
Embraced with textures of orange and gold,
The colours begin to change.
Waiting impatiently,
Till she can soften her hair,
Like candy floss and dance
With pearls as she once only dreamed
The passing of time, creating an abyss
Dreams forgotten, moments changed
It is now empty, the sparkles fade,
The shimmers subside
And time slowly but eloquently,
Begins to disappear.