Comments on: Horribly disfigured porcelain dolls

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Those are pretty interesting!

By: Hexjumper

Hexjumper — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unicorn chaser….?

I just really don’t know what, like, the _point_ of these are. It’s like “Oh, how cute, let me get a closer loBLEAAAAAAAAARGGGH.”

Was somebody saying “I really like Victorian porcelain figures, and I also really like the Saw movies, and I’d like to not have to turn my head to see each in turn”?

By: operator99

operator99 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the vibe I’m getting here.

By: buboes_in_diplopia

buboes_in_diplopia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is my favorite type of art, the juxtaposition of two radically different concepts to create a “WTF” response. It’s like anarchy of art.

By: PurityObscurity

PurityObscurity — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It would be even better if the reclining doll had a bloody toe.

By: allenbukoff

allenbukoff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is so BoingBoing and so Cory BoingBoing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oddly familiar to Justin Novak’s work entitled Disfigurines.

http://blogs.eciad.ca/justinnovak/archive/disfigurines/

By: Felan

Felan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another artist working in a similar idiom is Shary Boyle, who has an excellent solo show on right now at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

http://www.sharyboyle.com/sculpture-A.htm

Personally, I find Boyle’s work more interesting than Harrison’s and Novak’s – it’s more conceptually rigorous, going beyond simple juxtaposition, as well as technically immaculate. But regardless of preference, it’s neat to see all three in context of one another.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shary Boyle is the Canadian queen of this stuff. Although, her work is more thoroughly realized I think.
http://www.sharyboyle.com/

By: lecti

lecti — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think the one on the left goes a bit beyond “horribly disfigured.”

By: ransom notes

ransom notes — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love these!! I took the time to look through her entire website and her work from previous years is equally impressive. I am quite fond of her human flesh draped miniature furniture.

thank you for sharing this Cory.

and I appreciate the the anon post providing the definition “cognitive dissonance” – it just described my whole life. :-J

By: Hell's Donut House

Hell's Donut House — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My sister proudly displays in her house a giant cabinet of “Precious Moments” figurines. What I wouldn’t give to sneak one of these in.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s called cognitive dissonance. The contrast makes you attracted to it. Now you know. ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I hate to be the stoner of the bunch, but looking at the one on the left, WHat immediately jumps to mind is turning that beauty into a bong, high-school-art-class style. Couldn’t you just picture some kind bud glowing in her empty head, the vapors travelling down her spinal column [nervous-system pathway] and into your lungs! haha…. hack!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hexjumper, you just answered you own question.

Its about the juxtaposition of gore and classical porcelain niceness and the reactions it provokes.