Studio Time

I managed to get myself involved in cleaning up an image drive that’s been the subject of far too many backups, image dumps and so on, for quite a few years now. The drive was useless because it had just become impossible to find anything on. It has a lot of stuff on it that really is usable, so… I bit the bullet and started searching out duplicates.

While searching through stuff, I came across this absolutely horrible photo of a piece I did a while back. I no longer own the piece so I can’t improve on that.

This was meant as a commentary on the doll (not Bellmer’s)… the sexist nature of it and so on. I’d originally intended to cut up a doll and tie it to the panel. That seemed a bit hokey and I’m not a big fan of violating copyright/trademark law, so I decided to build it from the ground up… maybe make a more general statement while I was at it

I built the head from paper mache mixed with acrylic medium. The stuff is incredibly hard when it’s dried and as permanent as plastic. It’s not really workable once it’s dried. Even the most manly of power tools are going to be daunted by it. Much of the body is built the same way. There’s a few wooden balls and bits in there as well. That got covered with fabric and a few different sizes of cord that I’d soaked in medium. I painted over that with acrylic paint.

A photo of this was used for the inside cover of Darkling Thrush’s “Myriad” CD. It’s a good album. You should give it a listen if you can find it.

The painting’s 12 inches square… “acrylic on panel”.