Comments on: Loopy Boopy

Loopy Boopy

cjorgensen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:16:08 -0800

Colleen lives in New Orleans and makes strange dolls out of polymer clay. She has a blog and an Etsy shop. Here's a short interview. See also Art Dolls Only and the Travelling Doll Project.

By: psylosyren

psylosyren — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:20:00 -0800

I would have been a much happier little girl if I had these instead of Barbie.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:01 -0800

These are wonderful!

By: sidereal

sidereal — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:16:15 -0800

I'm lost in the woods at night. I stumble across an abandoned farmhouse...and it's full of these things, hanging from strings or nailed to the walls. Slowly, they all begin to turn and look at me

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:21:06 -0800

And that's when you tip your hat to them and say, "How dee doo?" You leave a quarter in the guitar case and whisper a wish, and then you never told anyone what you saw.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:29:01 -0800

You should see the doll house that goes with these; a partially burned cardboard box stained with urine and gasoline.

By: TomMelee

TomMelee — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:45:39 -0800

They are very good. They, like many things in this life that are good are things I certainly do not want one of.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:46:27 -0800

KevinSkomsvold: "You should see the doll house that goes with these; a partially burned cardboard box stained with urine and gasoline." addressed to Tim Burton.

By: stormpooper

stormpooper — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:49:27 -0800

She's talented--in a Wednesday Aadams sort of way.

By: Laotic

Laotic — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:00:40 -0800

~~strange~~ strangled dolls

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:10:21 -0800

Well, when I first saw the imagine of this doll, I thought, "that's cool, I wonder if she made that in Illustrator or if it's an actual painting," then I realized it was a doll! Her Monster Drop Off was a great idea, and given a bunch more monsters and a longer trip would have been a project worthy of attention in its own right. And I don't want to come off as some kind of shill here, but after checking out the Etsy store, I was pretty amazed at the price point for these dolls. I had to cut my last line about "Doubt you'll see these on regretsy.com," since...previously. I do think it's a bit odd this is my second doll post, but damn, if these had been around during my deformative years I would have surely been playing with dolls (instead of lighting my Batman Action Figures on fire!).

By: Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger

Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:14:11 -0800

And there's a creepy doll That always follows you . . .

By: 1f2frfbf

1f2frfbf — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:44:27 -0800

An art project that keeps following me around wishing I would bring it to life is to create feral dolls. That is: dolls that have been lost or misplaced and are forced to live in the wilds, replacing various missing parts with cast-offs from the civilized world, and improvised objects from nature. So obviously, I loves me some creepy dolls and these are great.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:24:28 -0800

First May last night, now this. I am haunted by dolls stricken with albinism and Treacher-Collins.

By: gemmy

gemmy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:03 -0800

I really love these. So creepy and cool.

By: Tube

Tube — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:49:17 -0800

An ordinary doll I found outside a cemetery in New Orleans. The context was creepy.

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:49:27 -0800

All of her dolls look like primordial dwarfs.

By: flaterik

flaterik — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:33:01 -0800

The description reminded me of my friend's project, specimen 7. I think it's fantastic, so... there's a link. You might like it.

By: localroger

localroger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:42:08 -0800

Tube, do you have any establishing shots of where you found that doll? I'd say there is a good probability that if you found it posed like that, it was part of a Voodoo (or if you're politically correct Vodun) ritual. If so there would be other things around -- perhaps silver coins, bits of gemstone, costume jewelry, or symbolic designs drawn in the earth or carved into a tree. People have gotten a bit savvy about stuff like that so you don't generally find the ring of silver dimes any more (way too flashy and kids are prone to scoop them up), but the point of the ritual staging is lost if the querant's intent isn't expressed somehow in a way the gods would be presumed to understand.

By: Tube

Tube — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:02:29 -0800

The photo was taken in October 2005, so there was all this wind blown debris around. At the time, I assumed it had simply blown there. There was wind damage inside the cemetery.

By: saucysault

saucysault — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:14:53 -0800

I like the dolls, they remind me of blackeyedsuzie but a bit more ... less pretty.

By: crush-onastick

crush-onastick — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:26:59 -0800

I have one, and one thing I love about it is how remarkably SHINY the eyes are. They glitter really beautifully. You can't tell from the pictures how shiny the eyes are. They're nicely crafted. I highly recommend them, if you like that sort of thing, or if you've favorited this thread with a mind to buy one for yourself.