🐄 Behind the Doll Parts Trio: Innocence, Femininity & Reclaiming What’s Ours

There’s something undeniably tender — and unsettling — about dolls.
They’re symbols of girlhood, sweetness, beauty… and also fragility, silence, and ownership.

Dolls are created to be looked at.
Arranged.
Protected or mishandled depending on who holds them.

For many women, that dynamic feels uncomfortably familiar.

The Doll Parts Trio grew from sitting with that feeling — the tension between innocence and autonomy, softness and sovereignty. This collection wasn’t just about art, but about gently questioning the stories we’re handed about what femininity is supposed to mean.

1. Dolls Reflect a Version of Femininity We Often Outgrow — Or Escape

As children, the way we interacted with dolls shaped our earliest ideas of what a “girl” should be:
pretty, presentable, polite, quiet.

But real women aren’t porcelain.
We’re complex, evolving, unpredictable.
We grow into our voices, our anger, our desires, our boundaries.

The Doll Parts Trio looks back at those early symbols of girlhood not with nostalgia, but with curiosity.
What parts of that innocence are worth reclaiming?
And which parts were never ours to begin with?

2. Softness Is Still Strength — Just a Different Kind

There’s a misconception that empowerment needs to look bold or aggressive.
But strength can be something gentle, too — a kind of internal resolve.

The trio intentionally leans into softness: flowing lines, delicate imagery, childlike motifs.
Not because softness is passive, but because softness can be chosen.

It’s a reminder that femininity isn’t something fragile that can be taken from us — it can be something rooted and self-directed.

3. Innocence Isn’t a Commodity — It’s an Internal Experience

For so long, women’s innocence has been treated like a resource to value, judge, or even exploit.
But innocence isn’t a transaction.
It isn’t something that can be “lost” or “ruined.”
It’s simply a part of our inner landscape — something we can revisit, redefine, or reinterpret.

The Doll Parts Trio gently pushes against the idea that innocence is something the world can claim.

Instead, it asks:
What if innocence belongs only to you?
What if it’s something you carry forward, on your terms?

4. Fragmentation Can Be a Way of Understanding Ourselves

The imagery of “parts” rather than whole figures speaks to how women are often viewed: broken into body parts, personalities, roles.
But fragmentation isn’t always violent — sometimes it’s introspective.

Breaking something down can also be how we understand it more deeply.
How we rebuild.
How we decide what stays and what doesn’t.

The Doll Parts Trio isn’t about a woman being torn apart.
It’s about a woman quietly piecing herself together — intentionally, reflectively, and with ownership.

5. Dolls Can Be Owned — But We Cannot

One of the core themes of the trio is the contrast between an object that belongs to someone, and a person who belongs to herself.

A doll’s body is meant to be held, moved, controlled.
A woman’s body is not.

A doll’s purpose is to be pleasing.
A woman’s purpose is her own to define.

This collection takes imagery historically tied to passivity and transforms it into something self-possessed — something that can’t be claimed.

6. A Love Letter to the Versions of Ourselves We’re Still Reconnecting With

The Doll Parts Trio is for the gentle, quiet parts of us that we may have pushed aside.
For the girl who learned to make herself small.
For the woman who learned to stretch herself wide.
For the softness we’re still learning to hold without letting the world take advantage of it.

It’s a reminder that innocence and femininity don’t need to be guarded — they can be embraced.
They can be ours again, without conditions.

Reclaiming What’s Soft, Without Letting It Be Taken

At its heart, this collection is an exploration of autonomy:
the right to be gentle, to be feminine, to be innocent — without being possessed.

It’s a quiet rebellion.
Not loud, not sharp, not explosive.
But steady.
Rooted.
Whole.

The Doll Parts Trio is a way of saying:

My softness is mine.
My girlhood is mine.
My body is mine.
I belong only to myself.