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Did you have a doll as a kid that seemed just possibly haunted, whose gleaming glass eyes would watch from some dark corner of your room while you tried fitfully to fall into sleep? Well, in the realm of grotesque nightmares to claw at the reaches of your mind, here’s Will You Please Just Be My Fucking Valentine by David Fratkin (Coral Press Arts, 2012).... Read More at Hyperallergic. |
David Fratkin’s digital photo images from his series ‘Playing With Dolls’ are unsettling pictures, the kind that make you laugh and squirm at the same time, the sort that make you doubt yourself, make you uncomfortable, after all dolls are for children, they are innocent playthings to be kept out of the hands of adult men. But this is just the point. Ever since he was a boy Fratkin has been playing with dolls and as an adult they have become a symbol of lost childhood, a means to travel back through memory, to a time of play. Read More at MutantSpace. |
