Featured Artist: Norola Morgan
Welcome the first of our Featured Artists for our March 1st issue, Norola Morgan of MoonYoonits Studios! Norola combines found items and imaginative new creation to make striking art dolls. …
Village of Life-Sized Dolls in Nagoro, Japan, via The Herald Sun
When a village or a city dies, nature takes over. One woman in Japan is attempting to memorialize her village and slow that process. The remote town of Nagoro only …
Quote for Today: Joe Abercrombie
The lamplight gleamed on the Magus’ white grin. “People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they …
Dolls from Around the World, part two: Folk Dolls and the Female Image
From inspiring imagination to setting expectations and limits, dolls teach concepts like gender and class. What do they tell us? We can’t interpret our world without creating context, including scientific …
Quote for Today: Angela Carter
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail …
Quote for Today: Karl Lagerfeld
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. –Karl Lagerfeld
Dolls from Around the World, part one: Dancing Figures
Ethnic dolls have much to do with memory and the interpretation of the past. They codify values, dress, gender roles, and appropriate occupations for the culture they represent– or at …
From the Master’s Hand: The Making of a Japanese Ichimatsu Doll
Please enjoy the delightful video below showing the construction of a Japanese Ichimatsu doll. Even without the ability to read the subtitles I was moved by the process and the craftsmanship …
Quote for Today: Annie Besant
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. —Annie Besant
Images of Humanity: Storytelling and the Doll
Dolls are frequently dismissed as children’s toys. Might there be deeper significance behind them than we are willing to entertain? When I was a kid, my father traveled several times …