The extraordinary doll people of Mari Shimizu.
So beautiful and so sad.
This design may have inspired Mark Ryden, or did Mark Ryden inspire it?
I love to see doll people finally being posed in natural settings, giving these special beings some well-deserved dignity.The mainstreaming of this trend can be seen in the work of Gina Garan, who's "Blythe" character...
... can currently be seen on Target billboards.
Top stuff; I especially like the rabbit doll and friend.
ReplyDeleteI am fascinated by mutant babies; deformed children and the like, especially some of those post Hiroshima monstrosities/beauties as featured in some of the Japanese comics. Without having done any research, are such dolls available?
Plus, forgive me if you have this in your archives already and I have missed it, but would a feature on some of your favourite 'doll' movies be possible? I admit I love 'Chucky'- although I suspect this is more to do with Brad Dourif than anything else-and have always loved most of the 'ventriloguist dummies come to life' pictures, even the bad ones.
mandingo -- glad you like these. There are "wounded" and stricken dolls. I will post pictures of them, too.
ReplyDeleteRe: dolls, I will do a post on favorite doll movies soon. In the meantime, you might enjoy this site: http://www.kindertrauma.com/
It's very good. Folks post about the stuff that scared the shit out of them when they were kids.
Dolls figure quite a bit, of course.