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Child's Play

Using old, discarded dolls and toys, I set up scenarios evoking the fears, anxieties, and nightmares that are often part of early childhood experience.  Dolls are surrogates, given to little girls to role-play their future.  They come embedded with sunny attitudes, but after age and neglect they tell a different story.  Their expressions and battered condition now hold a history.  It's this vulnerability that I use to create scenes with psychological tension: trauma either has or is about to happen.
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Crayons
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Family Circle
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Drunk Dad (first)
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Drunk Dad (second)
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Drunk Dad (third)
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