About six years ago, artist Eric Doeringer made a set of toys with outlaw/lowlife/modern problem themes. They look just like the kinds of cheap toys that grocery stores sell.
These toys are designed to imitate the look of the toy accessory sets commonly sold in grocery or 99-cent stores. Instead of the usual fantasies (Cowboy, Princess, Doctor) I have substituted more realistic urban futures.
Most of the toys included in the sets are "ready-mades". They are actual toys, but when reassembled and repackaged they take on more sinister overtones.
I designed the packaging and custom vacuum-formed the clear plastic blisters, so the toys are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
