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As 2008 draws to an end the 100-art-doll challenge is far from over!
The goal Stacey and I set ourselves of creating 100 art dolls in twelve months has not been achieved. This is the obvious place to insert numerous excuses however…
 In principle, a project such as this has always meant to add or contribute something to […]

The December Scream is the second homage to Edvard Munch’s Scream figure (see Arrigo Dorissa art doll # 14, June 2008 for the first Scream).
Standing at approximately 52 centimeters tall, The December Scream is a mixed media sculpture. Materials include: papier mache, remnants of an old woolen jumper, fluff chewed from an old woolen mat […]

One of the most hard-working, creative people that I have the pleasure of calling a friend (apart from Stacey Apeitos), is Scott Rosenzweig. Scott has a very successful blog (somelikeitscott.com) and v-blog on You Tube.
After checking out the 100 art dolls challenge on myartself.com, Scott asked me to make him a voodoo doll. Even though […]

Alien Visitor was inspired by three themes: (1) the work of Professor John E Mack; (2) Carl Sagan’s book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994); and (3) Planet Earth, the home of human life.
Professor John E. Mack was an eminent Harvard psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Pulitzer Prize winner. His clinical […]

This is a piece called Fundamental Infant. It is a reflection of some of my fundamental values, namely Loyalty, Honesty and Commitment. At times, values such as these can be misplaced (for numerous reasons) and inevitably lead to disappointment and frustration. However, in this case I refer to these values in the context of a […]

Edvard Munch’s, The Scream has been referred to, not so much an incident or a landscape, but as a depiction of a state of mind. Fortunately, many versions of The Scream survived through time since painted, sketched and lithographed from 1893 to 1910. It wasn’t just the image that inspired my latest submission but the artist’s diary entry dated, 22 January […]

I have a thing for mermaids.
This pair of conjoined twin mermaids started life as an illustration I created on a cardboard book page shaped like a fish tail. You can see their heads fit into the tip of the tail; the caudel fin. Anyway, I decorated eight of these die-cut pages and sent them into a collaborative […]

Mr. Elephant (who has a very good memory) is bound in swathes of bandage that assist with the containment emotional distress. It represents a psychological image of him, specifically the way in which he symbolises containment of pain and distress. Mr. Elephant’s self-reflection assists with self-regulating his emotional response to moments when memories of difficult […]

Last week I attended a five-day residential art retreat, Fibres Ballarat, and I’ve written more about the experience on my other blog, Ispirato.
As my personal project in Sandy Webster’s book binding class, I created a set of paper dolls; main characters from the ancient story of Sumerian goddess Inanna’s descent to the Underworld. The […]

In comparison to previous posts, I found this one the most difficult to write. In contrast however, this submission to the 100-art-dolls challenge was the most enjoyable to create.
Even though this character, called Neonlorn Badland is my favorite of all sculptures that I have created thus far for this project, the reflection that inspired his […]