It’s probably a good thing there was no one around with a video camera the other day.
If you ever want a really sturdy doll for a kid, let me suggest My Twinn (if it’s still available) ’cause it’s pretty near indestructible and a nice doll, too. I was decapitating one I’d picked up at a yard sale somewhere with a hand saw, a slow, painful process. I tried to bisect the head vertically afterward but The Ed came to my rescue and did that on the bandsaw. He didn’t even ask questions. Maybe he was afraid to.
Last Wednesday, “She who measures” and I registered for a “call and response show at the Thames Art Gallery. They hauled seventeen pieces from the permanent collection and let interested artists view them with no information or even accreditation. If something “called to you” you could “respond” by making a new work which will be displayed alongside its inspiration in the gallery in June. (The works from the permanent collection will be available for public viewing sometime in May after they finish some painting (on walls, that is).
Anyway there was a photo involving dolls and masks and now I’m doing a collage involving dolls and masks and photos and beauty and women’s self images and it all led to me cutting the head off a large doll. I also carved up some Barbies; they were much easier.
Yesterday I put a wash on a prepared wooden ground and collaged a layer of what are basically illustrated beauty tips.
Today I started adding a paler wash over it all and ended up platering it with white tissue paper before adding the second layer. That’s drying now and it’s past time I started supper but before I soaked everything again, I placed photos provisionally to check how it will all work out. The photos will be manipulated somewhat and have things added to them but they’ll be glued down in place tomorrow, all going well (though I can’t imagine why it would).
The last time I posted pictures, the spacing came otu weird and I haven’t had time to play around and figure out what I’m doing wrong so I hope there isn’t more white space than blog this time around. Then again, it might be prettier that way.
