Chimera
Hopefully I am getting this in right under the wire. This is my Month of Softies contribution. I named it Chimera because that word and idea has been buzzing around in my head since I heard it said in a discussion of stem cell research.
I didn’t think I was going to participate. The monster theme had no appeal. But I kept thinking about it when I saw what people were coming up with. I was thinking that a cuddly toy isn’t my idea of a monster. I thought about what monster means to me- I got stuck on the sea monster idea, a giant squid or something. Then I saw this and this drawing by Mariana Massarani and I got really inspired!
She is made from my (box) graveyard of reject doll parts. 6 hands and 1 head. The body is made of a linen napkin I got last November and a piece of silk that was somebodies curtain once. The napkin has a large purple H embroidered on it- I used it as part of the body. I used vintage trims inherited from my mother and mother-in-law’s stashes. The buttons are mostly from a jar that my neighbor gave me before she moved last summer. I think that’s everything.
I will post better pictures when the light is better.
May 1st, 2005 at 7:02 am
that is the absolute coolest!
May 1st, 2005 at 8:21 am
I really love it !! It’s totally cool. And I think I probably read the same New York Times article about stem cell research your talking about… well done !!
May 1st, 2005 at 11:27 am
You are right, monsters shouldn’t really be cuddly. Your’s are magnificant and scarry. Could give any child nightmares I think. Like a very sad girl trapped inside a fish - a mermaid theme gone mad? :-) Nice work.
May 2nd, 2005 at 10:25 pm
She’s wonderful!
It’s funny, I’ve been ruminating on the word chimera lately also, I wonder where it came from. I’ve also heard it more than a few times in the past few weeks, enough that I’ve started correcting people’s pronunciation of it (picky picky me).
May 3rd, 2005 at 5:36 am
LOL - she is lovely and very cool! I keep wondering if she has trouble co-ordinating all her hands to pull in the same direction when swimming.
May 3rd, 2005 at 9:29 am
The chimera is also a monster used in the old Dungeons and Dragons game, so the name is very fitting. Yours is really very creepy (a compliment). I think it is the beautiful human face on the strange monstrous body that does it. Very well done!
March 29th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Cool!
: )