I was looking through photos of work I did quite a while ago and stumbled across the photo of a "doll" that I made for a co-worker. We had been swapping stories of childhood poverty and were joking about who had the worst toys. Trish told me that they were so poor, her family couldn't afford to buy her a doll, so she made one out of a piece of 2x4 on which she drew facial features and carried around like a doll. That inspired me to whip up my own version of a 2x4 doll, complete with copper wire for hair, bamboo extremities, and a skirt made of torn chiffon attached with copper nails. It was meant to be a joke, but Trish absolutely loved it and was actually a little weepy. I couldn't believe she actually kept the beast in the office for a while, then proudly displayed it in her living room (she even provided a photograph). This is the stuff that makes art fun.
