Cute and Creepy

It’s really no surprise that my quest for something that could embody cute and creepy ended up with me looking at dolls. Dolls, figurines, and sculptures of the human form seemed the most likely candidates because although there are cute creatures and certainly creepy creatures, it’s more likely that conflicted emotions will occur when it comes to creatures within our own species.

So what do you think of this gaggle of dolls? Cute and creepy, or just one of the two?

These little creatures are the creation of Anne Marie Gibbons who hand sculpts each and every big-eyed munchkin in polymer clay and then paints their faces with heat-set oil paints. All her dolls have tiny dolls of their own as well. It’s the tiny doll’s dolls that really seem to embody the creepy side of things, but they’re still kind of cute.

I need to stop and thank Irene Corman, who wrote the wonderful “Teaching Polymer Workshops” article in the present Fall 2013 Organic themed issue of The Polymer Arts, for her help this week and last in finding art and artists for the blog. Things are revving up here for the expansion of The Polymer Arts publication into books, and any help in taking a bit more off my plate is so very welcome. Please send a little thank you Irene out into the universe for her help. You’ll be seeing more of her finds as she continues to use her polymer art web-surfing addiction for the good of us all!