Effigy Doll




Well here is a peek of how my effigy doll is evolving. It's funny how Cynthia has started with the head and I have started with a torso lol! While cynthia's is an expression of ugly feelings, mine is about what I wish, more of a wish doll really. Rather curvy, hint! hint! to the powers that be, nudge! nudge! say no more! oooo la la :)

Anybody else want to join in our doll challenge?

I think this is very odd, and political correctness gone a bit far as it seems to have destroyed an interesting custom related to these particular wish dolls.


Doll Face




Update: To read about the making of this video Andy Huang talks about it here.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Your blog is very interesting!
Please, send me the photo of your pc desk and the link of your blog.
I'll publish on my blog!.
Thanks Frank
EMAIL: pcdesktop1@gmail.com
Heather said…
I am so in the doll thing...I started one too about three days ago. Mine is about the healing process of creation...my dreams too I guess. :) Doll Face was very, very cool!
dinahmow said…
Yes, I'm "in." I commented at Cynthia's place.
Soon as the sun comes out and I can thread a needle!
Anonymous said…
I feel fully inspired to create my doll, Jafabrit...
I love the idea of her being entirely political incorrect too..
jafabrit said…
Oh this is too cool, I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. :)

thanks for dropping by frank and sisters, well send you a pic.
Cool doll... I want to create another beaded doll, but I'm a littl busy at the moment... :)
Cynthia said…
What a sad video! Despite the message - it was put together so wonderfully. I want to learn how to make videos like that. Wow.

I like how your doll is starting out, Jafabrit!!

I found it interesting that the Asian dolls were a bit like Weebils Wobble but They Don't Fall Down. I wonder if that was their inspiration??
Anonymous said…
Your doll is looking great girl! It's so interesting how Cynthia is working on a clay doll and you are working on a doll made out of cloth. I love all the different techniques you can use in art. I love the video! To me it reminds me that sometimes if you go to far with plastic surgery and perfecting yourself. You can mess yourself up in the process.Although I do not know if that is what the creator initially intended it to mean. Thank you for sharing that video with us!
*HUGS*
andrea said…
Discriminatory of the blind! Please! So what would they say about Picasso's interpretation of the human body? That it's discriminatory against those with only half a face?
jafabrit said…
yes, that kind of floored me andrea!
L.M.Noonan said…
Totally amazing video. Gave me the willies. Waht's with all the voodoo?
jafabrit said…
What's with the voodoo? I don't know LOL! I have always found spirit/wish/voodoo/day of the dead dolls interesting. I have made a number of dolls, although they were not voodoo in nature, but they weren't pretty dolls. Maybe I will post one of them.
Dr.John said…
Your doll is coming now make the other leg wooden.
David Howard said…
The word doll is a shortened version of idol. Putting our desires and wishes on an inanimate object. Sort of a token God. A sharmanistic divining tool. But, yours looks a bit more like art. Maybe art is an attempt at the divine - a leap of faith, a scrabbling for something more. I still have my teddy bear - which I blew up with Guy Fawkes explosives, when I was a kid. He is all sewn up now, but has an eye missing.
inspired said…
doll face is extra ordinary ;o]
have you visited South Shields Daily Photo yet ? Gann canny noo hinney ..
jafabrit said…
eye, I did inspired. Hope your in fine fettle today.

I like your thoughts howard :)

Hi dr.john glad you dropped in. Not sure what I plan for this doll, but I think her other leg will be cloth too :)
Philip said…
I found this more than painful to look at when I first saw it. It brought back emotional memories of a suicide that I witnessed on London Underground and some of the war photos I have seen of Iraq that don't reach the newspapers. I know that you intended none of this - this just illustrates the immense power of art I guess and how each person sees things differently. I am sure I will feel differently when it is finished!
jafabrit said…
wow, philip, no I hadn't intended it, but I can see why you thought it (re: images from iraq). Your comment gave me goosebumps.

"this just illustrates the immense power of art I guess and how each person sees things differently."

It always amazes what people can see in my art that I don't see, and what I can see in others work that they had not imagined.
Philip said…
It's funny but today I got rather worried about the comment I made in case it kind of threw you or was unacceptable. I'm glad that you took what I said at face value and didn't get phased. The problem for me was that I saw it as a finished piece - hence all the memory links.
jafabrit said…
Expressing your reaction (no matter what it is) is never unacceptable to me philip.
Todd Camplin said…
Nice dark imagery of a doll. I like it.

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