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Ginger Royal
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Complexities of the past continually visit us. Our childhood runs through into
the present. Things look very different at different ages and we layer our
relationships with all the emotional garments of the past. I never played with dolls when I was younger. My mother used to make them sing and dance and try to pique my interest through their animation. I found her animation very interesting, though I never understood why she thought I ought to be interested in dolls. As I have gotten older I have found them to have more anthropomorphic qualities and symbolism then ever in my youth. I still wonder if the popularity of dolls is the parent's creation. Who gets to become the animated one as the child is coaxed into a parental role towards the doll? In this series, I give the doll its personality as made up through adult eyes in adult surroundings. As a child you 'play house', as an adult you 'clean house'. 'Cleaning house' is a metaphor for the process of mental cleaning. Raggedy Andy provides (through a doll's non-threatening anthropomorphic qualities) the psychological and emotional witness of one's personal process of this internal cleansing. Expressing the conflicting emotional states through varying painting styles and elements, I lead the viewer through the busy work or mindless tasks that one engages in on the surface, which give space for the psychological metamorphosis that has the true ability for emotional and spiritual cleansing. These pieces are about giving oneself the space to let go, knowing when to purge, and the processing which provides the balance necessary in redistributing past experiences. |
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