Dol: (old french) manoeuvre frauduleuse, destinée à tromper.
Marie Honnette: personne sans charactère qu’on manoeuvre comme on veut.
       

A Marvel in 1/12th scale

Hand made hand-maid

Fashioned from putty and other odds and ends
(With passion for a certain plastic beauty)
This miniature Athena is not real, b
orn adult and five inches tall
With a poem for an afterbirth.

The original a borrower of bits and bobs,
Her head just so, a tilted nose, adopted pose
With shoulders low, her movements flow with halting grace
As each gesture and each motion suggest a trace of emotion.

 

The figures are used in various ways to evoke responses, which derive both from the postures, and the environments in which they are placed, their interactions with each other, and also from the potential to use distortions of scale to assist in the formulation of a response to particular surroundings.

The figure can be identified with as a means of expression, exploration, or projected experience. The work has a narrative that is autobiographical, fictional and historical.

The idea of the female form as something that can be used to embody diverse abstract and concrete concepts is well established, in Classical and Judeo Christian mythology, deriving from traditions which depict the first female as being a manufactured arte-fact made from the earth.

In Greek tradition Pandora is created by the gods. She is a beautiful work of art; the passive recipient of divine or male energy and a result of her appearance in the world is the mixed evil of monogamous matrimony. She was not given to men as a prize; she was given as a punishment.

In Christian mythology Eve too was made from clay and is also blamed for the distress that befalls humanity.

 

Doll. Doll. Doll.Doll. Doll. Doll. Doll. Doll. Doll.
Twelvemo doll. 1/12th scale doll. 1/12th scale doll.1/12th scale doll.
1/12th scale articulated doll
collector's doll
Sarah Beare
poseable doll. Artist's doll. Artist's doll. Artist's doll. Artist's doll.
Artist's doll. Artist's doll.

animation using 1/12th scale doll

 
           
 

I am the lady smith
mother and father
Of Lili-Putain
who will turn tricks for me
Like Eve or Pandora
who reflect and inspire
respect and Desire
Inspire your respect
and reflect your desire
A muse to amuse you
Figment of the imagination
(To muse is an action of
profound abstraction)