Puppets & Doll Collages

In this section we seek to present one-of-a-kind, unusual and creative pieces of moving-parts sculpture in the form of dolls and puppets. We are seeking artists working in this genre and invite them to contact us.

We open this section with a series of Doll and Puppet pieces by Helen Compton, whose jewelry is also featured on this site. Her small sculptures range from whimsical to very dark; some portray a world of pain and loss, such as WAR ON CHILDREN, below.

The piece presents a broken doll-child with torn pictures of her home, classmates and childhood, among news clippings of the lost generation of Europe, Rwanda, and other locations on our planet in which thousands of small innocents have been bombed, tortured, kidnapped, murdered... About 18.5" high and 9.5" wide, broken pieces of china dolls, torn photos, dried roses and toys are nailed, strapped and bolted into a box of weathered chestnut.

Other pieces portray the artist as a pressured, modern-day woman: housemaid, worker -- creative, spiritual, sexual, raging, nostalgic, protesting, seeking, grieving, remembering, ageing. Each piece is one-of-a-kind, although some are created as part of a series, such as the "Time" and the "Mechanica" series, in which several dolls differ from each other in detail while referring to a common theme.

Puppets and Dolls In this section we seek to present one-of-a-kind, unusual and creative pieces of moving-parts sculpture in the form of dolls and puppets. We are seeking artists working in this genre and invite them to contact us. We open this section with a series of Doll and Puppet pieces by Helen Compton, whose jewelry is also featured on this site. Her small sculptures range from whimsical to very dark; some portray a world of pain and loss, such as WAR ON CHILDREN, below. The piece presents a broken doll-child with torn pictures of her home, classmates and childhood, among news clippings of the lost generation of Europe, Rwanda, and other locations on our planet in which thousands of small innocents have been bombed, tortured, kidnapped, murdered... About 18.5" high and 9.5" wide, broken pieces of china dolls, torn photos, dried roses and toys are nailed, strapped and bolted into a box of weathered chestnut. Other pieces portray the artist as a pressured, modern-day woman: housemaid, worker -- creative, spiritual, sexual, raging, nostalgic, protesting, seeking, grieving, remembering, ageing. Each piece is one-of-a-kind, although some are created as part of a series, such as the "Time" and the "Mechanica" series, in which several dolls differ from each other in detail while referring to a common theme.

Polychronic "I change my identity and my wardrobe by task, by time, by whim, by weather; I forget who I am supposed to be..."	In The Dark Closet " Age is the darkening closet which traps us all ... but I can still forge my own small weapons, bits of mind- music to take me Into the singing void."	Cocooned "I am all wrapped up, smothered and bound. I must be born again before I can fly or sing..."	Iron Venus:"...Tough as nails... but Innocent, under everything...do you even remember your doting Daddy's loving looks..."