the nasty woman will try to eat you.
continuing with my earlier ramblings about the AWFUL representation of women in those fairy tales of our youth, y'know the ones? the ones that we never questioned.
but why were all of the bad, nasty characters women? evil step-mothers, witches and generally sick, twisted old women who want to eat children - it is this sick and twisted woman who wishes to eat children that i have focused on in these little studies. sound familiar? hallo!!!! hansel and gretal. 

type writer + letraset pen

cardboard house that i 'built' (i did actually build it, but whether or not it can be classed as being 'built' is another thing all together)
i wanted to challenge this beautiful gingerbread house portrayed in the hansel and gretal tale. what if the evil old woman/witch/whatever she was, was a man? a man that baked! a man that baked this beautiful gingerbread house adorned with candy canes and jelly tots, it just would not happen because we all know that women belong in the kitchen (SARCASM SARCASM SARCASM!!!!!) with these new revelations under my belt i decided to build a gingerbread house with all together different prospects to that in the hansel & gretal story. we will call it 'the house that phoebe built' 
take that patriarchy!   

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