A doll I rescued from a trash barrel at work.
I think it's very cool. It looks like the arts & crafts I saw people living with dementia making when I was working in Memory Care. (A post about that: "Pieces of a Smashed-Up Life").
I like things that show imagination working despite, or even because of, limitations and damage.
wonky: crooked, off-center, askew, unsteady, shaky...
Cognate with Scots wankle (“wonky”), Dutch wankel (“shaky”), German Wankelmut (“fickleness, inconstancy, vacillation”), Danish vanke (“to wander”).
I think it's very cool. It looks like the arts & crafts I saw people living with dementia making when I was working in Memory Care. (A post about that: "Pieces of a Smashed-Up Life").
I like things that show imagination working despite, or even because of, limitations and damage.
wonky: crooked, off-center, askew, unsteady, shaky...
Cognate with Scots wankle (“wonky”), Dutch wankel (“shaky”), German Wankelmut (“fickleness, inconstancy, vacillation”), Danish vanke (“to wander”).
Why is this reminding me of "Carmen"?
ReplyDeleteThe voice is coming from (to?) the heart?
ReplyDeleteDoll opera!
Comme des Garcons, definitely.
ReplyDeleteLove this! This doll reminds me of the work of Judith Scott. See https://www.creativegrowth.org/press/judith-scott-featured-huffington-post-september-2016/
ReplyDeleteThere is something compelling about it.
Kirsten
VIVIAN: Did you know that according to Bill Cunningham, Rei Kawakubo based Commes des Garcon on the layered clothing of people living on the street?
ReplyDeleteSo yeah... but in this case, it's as if she collaborated with Fellini.
KIRSTEN: Yes--Judith Scott came to mind too: I love her wrapped things! I learned about Scott from a one-time blogger who often comments here, Art Sparker.
LOL -- that looks like someone's "I'm learning to sew" project.
ReplyDeleteSTEVE: Ha! Yes. But actually, in person it's weirder than a beginning sewing project--it really is more ... demented.
ReplyDeleteI say that with respect, having worked with so many lovely people with dementia. The stuff they made was... very odd.
Haha! It looks like it beamed up during a transporter malfunction! Love it!
ReplyDelete--Marz
I love the pompoms. But it is the posture of the doll that makes it so beguiling...like a Spanish dancer about to dance the flamenco. It needs mini castanets.
ReplyDeleteMARZ: Dr McCoy's nightmare!
ReplyDeleteBINK: Interesting, you and Art Sparker saw something Spanish in the doll.