I was told to look at the artist Tabitha Kyoko Moses due to the use of dolls in her work. I think she refers to when the dolls are fogotton. They look like they are wrapped 'mumified' in fact. Part of history, gathering dust and collecting dirt. But then the artists finds them. Looking at the history of the doll, dolls were often used in burials to send of with the child. The doll is rather corpse like, all dead limbed. and they do represent the human. It seems oerhaps this is what Tabatha is playing with - the deathliness of the doll. Its like she is making these dolls for a child that is already dead, following the mumified beliefs for the afterlife.
The way she places the objects in museum is also interesting as here is a place where we collect parts of history. The work fits well with the other artefacts around it but also has a contemporary feel to it. There always seems like a hint of darkness, perhaps saying in life, there is always death.
I find the x-rays quite interesting. The dolls have an inside- this never normally comes to value when looking at a doll. It is normally about the outside - the facing of the doll. People may forget it has an inside at all. in a way, it gives them more of a human quality. These images seem quite exciting indeed.
He uses larger than life hyper-realism in his work. Such an amazing thing i think. You are faced with this new born baby. It is this wonderful creation but seems quite grotesque. You can see all the details like skin pores. etc. Seems very freaky. He works from birth all the way to death. This to me is extroadinary. Out of this world in a way. Something as small as a baby to be larger than a car. This is what i want to play with - the scale. I think the scale will be very important!
Bellmer created several dolls with fragmented bodies that could be dismantled and arranged in various configurations. Then using the form of photography, he captured the image of the dolls in certain positions, often grotesque and in sexual positions. I think this is about death in a way as well as neglect, perhaps abuse. They are left there in these sexual positions, used for this reason. but they lie there empty, destroyed, abandoned, used. Even though they are dolls, the doll is a representation of the human and so you can feel this human conditions when you look at this work. I looks at fragments of the body, ie. 2 bums in the image above looking at certain parts of the body as fetishising.