animal dolls

THE MOTHER

I thought of posting this story for Mother’s day, but it sounded so repetitive that I let all summer pass before I came back to writing. This piece is called “The Mother”, and it was inspired from my son’s early drawings. Pense en escribir este articulo para el dia de las Madres, pero sonaba tan …

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Autorretrato con monos

Self portait with monkeys, 1943 / Autorretrato con monos, 1943 This was one of the 5 pictures I chose for making a Frida Kalho doll -with monkey dolls-. She painted herself in the company of four monkeys, for Frida they stand for polygamy. Her husband Diego cheated on her frequently, and she paid him with …

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Cloth Doll Explorations: Cats and Bunnies

After my first attempt at doll making I tried to design something from my own. I picked up the figure of a cat and a bunny, and humanize them a little bit, so they could have legs and arms attached to a long body, but still they were going to keep their animal features as …

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