Little Living Dolls
My friend Deanna wanted me to post photos I have taken where I posed small dolls in human situations, Living Dolls.
So far I haven’t found a real name for this hobby/ art form. Maybe, tucked away on a site like Wikipedia, there is a known term for this silly hobby I fell into about a year ago. If you find one let me know.
I think the photos give a twisted reality. You can be a little evil or you can just try to be clever. I’m somewhere in the middle, having a laugh being evil and yet wanting to still seem clever. How would you pose them and what setting would you put them into?
I have tried to build them a real setting, as if they had built their own home out of objects they found in my own home. I’ve always liked movies where tiny beings (such as animated mice) had their own dwelling built out of buttons, spools of thread, assorted items from the big people world.
You can find little dolls and characters at thrift stores. I did. I’m still watching for tinier dolls that are posable. It would be fun to have tiny cars, furniture and… but that would be a miniature doll house. Not quite the same as the street art version where they are out in the big, bad world.
Little People: A Tiny Street Art Project- This is where I became inspired to try it myself.
Flickr: The Secret Life of Toys
Love it!!!Where are the blonds??
I don’t have any blondes. Just the two Bratz dolls. I have two tiny cars from my sister’s house (her kids) and I have been keeping them for a photo when I get the right idea to suit them.
LOL That’s an exaggerated Dt. Coke ad for sure.
I hope you keep doing this here; like I said, I’m too lazy to check back at Flickr.
I’m having trouble adding images to my other WordPress blog but was fine here. Will likely add more. Nice to have the illustrations.
Great post! Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting.
I saw some photos, wish I remembered where, of toys taken from a perspective that they look full size. I was most amused by the little cowboy on a horse tending a herd of dinos in the tall grass.
I have a plan to do some pictures of my rubber ducks in the grass, in a pool, and in my niece’s Barbie bathtub. I want a collection to hang in my bathroom.
Your pictures are very cool. I love the stairs. I’ll be looking at my toys differently.
That is my Mom’s foot on the stairs. I was moving out of a basement apartment and we were going to go out for lunch, at the place I liked on Queen Street, for the last time. When I heard her coming down the stairs I arranged the dolls and asked her to stop there so I could get a photo.