14 Years Living With a Mannequin Family – One Artist’s Compelling Story

Suzanne Heintz has proved that the key to a life of happiness doesn’t necessarily lie in landing that perfect partner, having created her own artificial family no less than 14 years ago. It sounds like a pretty ludicrous concept on the surface, but as an artist Ms. Heintz set about creating a photographic timeline of her life featuring herself and her dressmakers mannequin family. That’s no typo – she’s effectively and literally built her family from retail display products! For over a decade, she, her dressmaking dummy husband and tailors dummy tykes have been snapped in all manner of key life moments, from family holidays to her fabricated wedding day. Her latest work The Playing House Project: Life Once Removed – is every bit as entertaining as it is genuinely thought-provoking. “People said: ‘You re such a nice girl, why aren t you married?’ writes Ms. Heintz. “No one actually used that out of date word, but, what they were driving at was that I was a Spinster ,
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