The Plastic Obsession
Sometimes, it’s hard to understand people’s motives behind choosing a life under the knife, but Marcela hoped that her show and agency would help people learn more about these folks. Marcela explains how people who are plastic often have deep insecurities, either due to being transgender, or not feeling like they can be themselves or express themselves in the right way with the bodies they were given. She believes that ‘for these people, it’s about the need to become somebody else because they were born in the wrong body.’ So who are some of the dolls?