furry voodoo monster skull puppet object thingy..

Such a good object. Why isn't more objects like this?


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three blind eyes

She's got a great helmet!

I was so excited about the third eye helmet when I found this picture that it took me a while to notice that the girl wearing it isn't a girl at all, but a doll.

a drawing from my sketchbook

I've been sketching for my doll project lately. I like that they are bodies, yet not alive. They are uncanny. I'm using real dolls as my models. I can't afford fancy ball jointed ones, so this one is Barbie's cousin that I ripped the head off because she looked too much like a cheerleader. I then replaced it with the head from a Pocahontas Barbie that I stripped the paint off of because she looked too much like Pocahontas (go figure). I stripped her hair off too, and made her dreads from yarn. If I'm going to paint dolls, they can't look like cheerleaders. I think I just have to work with my dolls, dress them up and pose them and see what comes out of it.


In this sketch, I glued on pieces of yarn for her hair (The turquoise and black yarn is sock yarn that I'm using to knit socks with at the moment, I think they'll be the prettiest socks ever!). I'd like to work more with texture for these paintings, and maybe use a bit of collage, and in general just do less minimalistic stuff than I've done before when I've painted people/bodies.

human dolls

Miquette posted these massive Blythe heads being worn by models in her Strawberry Anarchy blog,and they were so freaky and weird that I had to re-post them.

I think it's interesting to see models with doll heads, as models are kind of like dolls anyway. They're meant to be moving mannequins showing off an image, a style. Seeing them wearing doll heads just exaggerates this unreality. An unreality more perfect than the real, an ideal. I'm reading a book at the moment(Uro by Finn Skårderud -it's in Norwegian) where a psychiatrist says we don't talk about personality any longer, we talk about image. Surface.


Blythe dolls are so cute, like little perfect and fashionable people. They have no soul, but it doesn't matter as long as they have image.

I'm sure it doesn't come as a big surprise that my favourite doll is the goth doll.. :





Here's a video of the human dolls in action. It's weird to see them move:







There's more pictures of the models wearing the doll heads and info on how the doll heads were made and worn in Miquette's blog Strawberry Anarchy.



The doll heads are made by Pink Cactus Props.

19th century pregnancy dolls

I've been looking at dolls lately, trying to get some inspiration for my new paintings. Dolls are strange objects. These japanese dolls has most likely primarily been used for education - but also for shows on the human body & wonders of nature - as a type of educational entertainment.

The babies lined up next to the doll are well funny:

Different stages of pregnancy:

sensual dolls by marina bychkova

aahh marina bychkova is such a talented doll artist. i have a special interest in dolls. i guess i'm a bit childish, i like toys and miniatures, but that's not all there's to it. i find the body, being a body, being a person really interesting. i find it interesting that humans keep making copies of themselves in the shape of dolls. a human is thought and body, the doll is a strange copy as it is devoid of thought; it is only body. to me, it is a disturbing copy; the human all objectified. i don't think it's a negative copy though; anything that is disturbing makes me question things, and questioning things isn't negative. also, marina's dolls are really pretty, it makes questioning things more fun. another thing is that the body being "objectified" sort of gives off sexual associations, which makes it even more fun to question things.







michael jackson!! :
this doll kind of looks like me from the back, when i used to henna my hair. maybe because my hair was the same length and equally brittle and damaged, like doll's hair:









i've been kind enough to enlarge certain ereas for all my readers. i love how marina bychkova doesn't make sexless barbie crotches, but makes her dolls more sensual, with pink nipples, detailed private bits etc. it looks amazing on most of her dolls, but upon seeing this picture i had to laugh out loud. i showed a similar photo of the doll on the left to my boyfriend, and he exclaimed "oh my god, her pussy looks like the mouth of a dog!!"
i don't think it has anything to do with their pussies being detailed or hairy, i think it's more of a fact that the dolls are ball jointed and it's hard to make things look ok in all positions - when the dolls stand up, their vaginas is sort of situated flat on the stomach. maybe it looks more normal when the doll is sitting down. i love this picture of them standing up though, i think dog mouth pussies is funny for girls with such beautiful, dignified faces.

check out marina bychkova's website for more amazing dolls.

heart of plastic aceo

another ACEO miniature art card of a ball jointed doll, painted with oil paint on canvas paper.

plastic heart, synthetic soul

another doll portrait miniature painting, painted with oil paint on canvas paper.

heart of plastic 2 aceo

oil painting aceo of a doll on canvas paper. i've been doing loads of doll potraits lately, dolls are creepy!!

heart of plastic aceo

Italian wedding

I'm fascinated by the woman in the photo that this drawing is based on- I think she looks weirdly stiff and artificial, kind of like a doll. I really wanted the photo, but I doubt the family it belongs to would have appreciated it if it disappeared, so this drawing will have to do.

geriatric associations

in a previous post of mine about diaper fetish, there was a comment from tessa klaren saying how she was more interested in geriatric incontinence. now i know what incontinence is, but i didn't really know what GERIATRIC incontinence was, so i typed it into google image search to see what i found.

i found this picture of a geriatric care patient simulator.

it would absolutely confuse a little girl if she got one like these for christmas.. and i obviously should never become a parent.

it reminds me a lot about when i went to see auschwitz and there was this room full of prostheses.
and later, probably inspired by that, i had a fever fantasy hallucination thing where i thought of myself as a pensioner completely made of prostheses.

then i found this strange doll in a charity shop that sort of embodied my confused thoughts on this subject, and i knew instantly that he was mine.

what i couldn't understand though, was that some child must have had him before me. i really think he's too grotesque for a child.

i don't know what i want to say with this, and maybe it's not important that i come to a conclusion; i only wanted to share a dark strange feeling i have of something to do with dolls, humans and the warped in-betweens.

photo-dioramas by Laura Plansker

Dioramas are such a great thing. I need to start making them, it's been a plan of mine ever since I saw a diorama that a relative of my friend Kat had made. It was a fancily decorated cardboard thing, and when you opened it up there was a little scenery with a field and some sheep. How amazingly pointless!

mario ambrosius erotic doll art

why is there something pervy about dolls? is it because we can identify with the doll and see a fucked up version of ourselves in it(or of our partner)? a dead version, objectified and divided into parts; fetishised?? is it because of connotations with sex dolls for adults or the forbidden eroticism of childhood??? i really don't know, but here again is some cool erotic and unsettling doll art, this time by mario ambrosius . because dolls ARE unsettling, and that's what i like about them.





if you like this, you might want to check out my blog entry about some pervy doll art this artist seem to be very inspired by; hans bellmer's dolls.

the birth of barbie

he he. art is well fun. these are stills from original sin, a video by polish feminist artist alicja zebrowska.

i think the way the doll's hair is sort of merging with her pubes is priceless.




i actually used to have a doll just like that one, although i didn't give birth to mine; i stole it from someone. i felt very ashamed for a long time, but i'm over it now.

her website is a confusing one, but here it is nonetheless.

hans bellmers dark surrealist dolls