“I love Yvonne Todd’s work. I am interested in how her representation of the female subject interrogates the male gaze. Everything about this character is not quite right. She looks like someone who might haunt op shops, retro diners or funeral homes.”

– Airini Beautrais, teacher and writer, for the Dec 2020 instalment of the My Choice exhibition series.

From the series "Sea of Tranquility" featuring quintessential Todd models posed alone and staring glumly into their own make believe reality. These 'girls' are posed in non descript backgrounds with glazed-eye-stares , polished-but-dowdy clothing and heavy make up, all which contributes to their fake plastic, doll-like qualities. In a conversation with Robert Leonard it is revealed that these models are styled in the fashion of the daughters of Mormon pastors, and that Todd has a self confessed "Christian Envy". She says of this series and other works with a Christian reference " I have Christian Envy. I want to belong. I want to be special. And I like the trappings of zealotry. The more fervent end of the scale, of course. People like Gramma Cherbear, whose fanatical religious instruction for children is accompanied by poorly-executed line drawings of animals that look really scabby and squalid and fucked-up. I'm intrigued by her disinterest in aesthetic finesse, along with the plainness of those girls modelling their mother's dowdy home-made garments. I want to recreate some of that." http://www.ima.org.au/pages/.exhibits/blood-in-its-various-forms...68.php