A Little Sweetie is a doll I made from a secondhand porcelain jester I bought for $7 and a skull that my girlfriend found for me at an abandoned house in the woods. She is really actually alive and can move around. She is polite but mischievous. You love her now.
Remember that you are loved ❤ Even if now you feel unbearably sad, there is still a lot of happiness waiting for you ❤ Even if you can feel support only from your cat or from your own art, you are important ❤
Quipu Womb (The Story of the Red Thread, Athens) - Cecilia Vicuña
“Although better known as a poet in her adoptive North American home (she has lived in New York since the 1980s), Cecilia Vicuña has stayed true to her youthful calling as a genre-bending visual artist for more than forty years, and her site-specific projects highlight the artist’s talent for composing poems in space, for a visceral lyricism in three dimensions. Vicuña refers to these particular works as ‘quipoems’—a contraction of poem and quipu; an online dictionary defines quipu, rather reductively, as ‘a device consisting of a cord with knotted strings of various colors attached, used by the ancient Peruvians for recording events, keeping accounts, etc.’ A pre-Columbian type of writing, in other, more poetical words—product of a literary tradition that has given the world such luminaries as Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra. Vicuña, who was born in 1948 in Santiago de Chile, is supremely aware of the weight of Indigenous history anchoring twentieth-century Latin American culture.
“Blown up to the monumental proportions of immersive ‘soft sculpture,’ her recent Athenian quipoem consists of giant strands of untreated wool, sourced from a local Greek provider, dyed a startling crimson in honor of a syncretic religious tradition that, via the umbilical cord of menstrual symbolism, connects Andean mother goddesses with the maritime mythologies of ancient Greece.”
The uni herd sold out SO quickly, thank you so much!
We’ve got plans for a different style of unicorn going forward that we’re excited about. More medieval/goaty energy this time I think, and larger overall.
This cute kitty has an onyx crystal heart. It sits about 9" tall and has a coat of high quality faux fur that is very soft. The neck has a plastic ball and socket armature inside that is fully posable and will not wear out over time. The arms and tail are also fully posable. They have a wire inside so should be posed with a little more care. The head is an original polymer clay sculpt and the hands are sculpted out of bendable clay that is quite flexible and durable.
