This is The Dollhaus, where one can find the My Little Possessions series, a collection of art dolls / slash dolls / sculptural assemblages I have built utilizing materials and themes not found in the standard doll faire. These were inspired primarily by the abundance of dolls one can find at yard sales; I regularly pillage the yard sale circuit for materials, and the plethora of used and no-longer-loved dolls in turn inspired me to use the dolls as materials.
I noticed, also, that quite a lot of dolls and toy babies are just plain creepy. I would later find that this creepiness I perceived participates within the robotics theory of the The Uncanny Valley, where artifical approximations of living things become less the things they mimic and more off-putting the better they mimick the real thing at certain levels of their evolution, until they close in on becoming indistinguishable. I find most dolls to be well within that Valley, with little chance of climbing out. It is a wonder to me why any girl dreams of becoming a mommy one day, what with all of these scary little rubber and plastic larval humans sold in cellophaned boxes at toy stores, staring eerily with faux needy eyes. And some of them pee.
Shudder.
So, no harm done in making their creepiness a bit more overt, right? Right?
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The Dollhaus : My Little Possessions / Slash Dolls
define : possession - something owned or possessed; wealth, property; state of domination by or as if by spirits
describe : wicked souls and other beings trapped within, infecting, or rebuilt into the forms of childhood toys
Slash Dolls : My Little Possessions
"He who possesses the most toys in the end wins."
"Open up your heart, and let the sunshine dim."
CAMERABODY - doll assemblage utilizing an old camera
Franken - doll assemblage built from four different dolls
Error Message - wire-based doll assemblage, blue-dyed parts; the gremlin behind the errors
A Contaminated Slide - doll assemblage built onto a microscope; the premise being that the specimen under examination grew and overtook the microscope, kinda like that one scene in that one Species movie
Best Friends Forever - dye, paint, powder, a lot of cutting and stapling; bff 4evr
The Black Fairy - I used way too much weird stuff on her; the dark fairy who failed
Rotten - acrylic, cloth, and stuff...; you can see his BONES.
plays well with matches - doll + fire = melty char char; what happens to naughty little children who insist on playing with fire
Ghast - rubber, wood, steel, cloth, acrylic, faux fur; more than just a ghoul, more than just hungry
The Red Queen - wood, brass, copper, steel, rubber; Hostess of the Tea Party of the Damned
The Torture Mouth - rubber, steel, tubing, leather, evil; behind the mangled, mangling maw, listless and hungry, is simply... nothing
Beheme - wood, steel, iron, copper, alkyd medium, rubber, acrylic; such huge hands
Tricker Treater - ceramic, rubber, cloth, various hardware, yarn; Why does it have to be trick or treat?
Also for your perusal, the experiments, which were used for testing, and the Frankinfant Monsters, which are of a basic but fully-flavored class of assemblages made for special events or gifts.
Scary ass dolls are nothing new, and hell, I swear that most dolls look scary on their own long before I ever start cutting into them.
And, just FYI, I have seen the Toddlerpedes, so you can stop e-mailing me links to them. Yes, they're kinda cool. It doesn't look like that dude does anything else, though, so I don't really care.
That said, expect...
...More to come...
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