I am used, sucked dry, made a husk by procreation. I was your dream, to be used as you wanted, no questions asked. And now, when I am even smaller, you love me more. You are infatuated with me, the tiny girl mummy, easy to dominate easy to idealise never seen as a person, always a dream.
But beware, while you think me dead inside, I am assembling crumbs of emotions, gather fragments of thoughts and set them together to resist/you.
This is the first time I worked with polymer clay. And I wanted to do it well, so an intense research was my first step. I was fascinated by all the amazing doll artists I saw on the net and at the same appalled that I fell for the big eye, translucent skin, near dead female gender representation which seems to dominate the doll making space. I felt ashamed that these stereotypes are still ingrained in my aesthetic appreciation and that at the same time I hated these „innocent“ dolls, which are not innocent at all but a projection screen for -I am not sure – perhaps society’s models of beauty, femaleness, desire and domination?
While I worked at the sculpture I envisioned all the thoughts this tiny being may have and which were in no way conforming its innocent „sleeping beauty“ vibes. To enhance this contradictions I gave the sculpture a headscarf which alludes to the costumes of „The Handmaid‘s Tale“ a series which is based on Maragaret Atwoods famous novel.
But one-woman resisting was in my eyes not enough, I saw a mass of seemingly sleeping/dead/zombified woman screaming out her thoughts. And so, the collage you can see was born. The heads of women - formed as death masks - are arranged as a flower bouquet. Multiplied they conquer the screen and invade the observers mind, hijacking feelings, and thoughts, fighting a silent battle.
How I made it
I started out with a wire construction coated with tin foil. The next layers are thin rolled out polymer clay. I than added step by step the facial features and added details. Last step was to form the headscarf and red ribbon.
I made a photo of the sculpture and a huge vase and erased the background (I used the the app scan thing, love it, but perhaps you all knew it already :-DD). Next step was reworking/drawing parts of the vase and sculpture give it the appearance of a bouquet. Last step and most time consuming was the rescaling, arranging and designing these single bouquets into a whirling design which sucks the viewers gaze inside the artwork.
Buy Polymore on nftschowroom. The artwork is made on Procreate on Ipadpro, 4457 x 4673 px, 29,5 MB. The artwork belongs to a series about the invisibility of women I am currently working on.
Read more about my art und upcoming exhibitions on neumannsalva or buy some of my digital artworks on NFT showroom.
As always, love your work! Happy Halloween! 😍
uhhhhblushing 😌Thank you so much for the lovely compliment. Happy Halloween to you too <3
Wow! This is totally different from other NFT
Thank you 🙏 It also was a first for me to work with polymer and go one step further to turn it into a collage. I already have worked with clay and digital art, but I never had the idea to combine them :-D
Somehow I heard a really loud screaming from the picture! 🤯🤯 A great concept art. At first from the thumbnail I thought it was an AI generated photo. I was wrong. You did make a sclupting on the head. It creeps me out 🤧😭
Creeping out sounds good in my eyes :-DDD I am sure the tiny dolls head want to be creepy, I just had to find a way to maximise her impact.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and sharing your feelings <3
You did a really good job on bringing out the scary part! And I mean it in a good scary way 🤧😅. Looking forward for your next masterpiece :DD
Manual selection by @qwerrie.
THank you so much for supporting my post, that means a lot to me <3
it is breathtaking and appealing, indeed. thanks for using #creativetag, that helped to find and curate it.
Thaaaaaank youuuuu. It is so encouraging to get feedback and in this case such a postive one. But sadly I am often bit at a loss with the tag use and fear I am not always using them correctly. But the better I did it right this time :-DDD
PS: I often use the #creativecoin for my needleworkmonday post which are a mix of art, craft and life topics. Is this faulty, should I stop? I do not want to misuse a tag 😱😱😱😱😱😱
#creativecoin, #proofofbrain, #neoxian, #archon are universal tags, you will not make any mistake using them, and not end up being penalted. the 'worse' thing you can end up with, is simply not being curated, nothing else. (some also use #creativity - thats probably a good one! but will not give you opportunity to earn the CCC tokens, like #creativecoin). in a broad sense, any photography at all, is an art, and is a creative stuff, being like that... isnt it?.. (but obviously not necessarily that it is great -- it can be a bad art too, haha!)
tag use -- on one hand is easy, but on another hand maybe a bit complicated, as you never know how does curators search for the stuff, which tags they actually do check :P
Ahhhh thank you for clarifying this, as I do not want to be rude and use something at the wrong place :-) Good to know the tags were ok.