Thursday, October 3, 2013

Why???

l I love things that are creepy. I like scary movies, creepy art, weird antiques, old photos, and ghost stories. I love creepy. I'm not the super fab, original goth mom Morticia Addams, but just a regular mom who has a fascination with the fun side of creepy.  This Creepy Doll Photo Project was born partly from my love of scary and partly because of my grandmother.

My grandmother loved dolls. She loved dolls a lot. My sweet grandmother loved dolls so much that she had an entire room dedicated to dolls. All four walls had floor to ceiling shelves filled with dolls. Old dolls, new dolls, Barbies, dolls with glass eyes, dolls that blinked, giggled, crawled, and talked. Guess who got to sleep in that room? Yeah, that's right, me. I remember laying there in bed at night flat on my back with my arms straight at my sides and all of my limbs under the covers. I did not want any part of me exposed to the air...exposed to the dolls.  I'd lay there with my eyes scrunched up tight, afraid of what I'd see if I opened them. I was a kid with a huge imagination and I always imagined those dolls doing horrible things to scare me.

Through this project, I am bringing all of the fears and nightmares I had of those dolls to life through photographs.  I hope you join me on this fun ride and Hope I can creep you out along the way.


1 comment:

  1. As a fellow photographer and someone who's been freaked out by dolls of different kinds throughout my life, I just love this project!
    There's this monkey 'doll' (stuffed animal type) that belongs to my step-dad and my mom still has it somewhere in the house seeing as he's had it since childhood. It's mega creepy imho and I used to hide it in the garage when I was still living at home. I didn't want to be in the same house as that thing!
    Next time I go for a visit, I'd like to take a picture of it to share with you in celebration of our mutual phobia.
    Oh, I also have an irrational fear of mannequins...
    I think that counts under dolls, right?!

    Please feel free to drop by my new blog midnightcartoon.blogspot.com if you like weird and creepy :D

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