During the artist’s childhood their mom wanted to buy a University Barbie from the school she graduated from but the store did not have a black version of that doll. The store had other black dolls but the artist's mother decided to go ahead and buy the white doll since it still represented her school. Over two decades later the black version of this doll appeared in a thrift store. Revealing that a black version of this doll always existed but that store decided to not order stock of it.
This new information prompted the artist to consider not just how the white doll was idealized in context to an association with higher education but also how this idealization is a trick. Another version of a topsy turvy doll. Where one doll always gets to be on top at the expense of the other and how often the doll on top is white. But at the end of the day both dolls are attached to each other with no legs in which to free themselves. The doll highlighted in the box is tricked into thinking the box is a privilege and not a restriction. A restriction they have possibly chosen.