My favourite part of doll crafting is this. Not styling or dressing up, but discovering the character, finding its' essence through colours, stiffness, lightness, roughness, flow and I dare to say vibration of the fabric and shiny trinkets. I use pre-loved, unwanted, outworn, broken etc materials to make my dolls. Those materials are donated and sometimes sent to me from across 7 seas. Sometimes the choice is between landfills and my craftroom, between announcing something a trash or it becoming a treasure again. I work with former belongings of those alive and deceased, giving them second life in my dolls. And I think it just adds value to them. It makes them special.

Sometimes it's the materials that lead the way to the finished doll, not my ideas. In that sense I myself as an artist feel more like a door, like gate for these creatures to enter the world, not the god that creates them. It's my job to serve them and find what they need, not make them exactly how I've seen them with my minds' eye. The process of making a doll doesn't happen with empty mental space, this is where inner conversation happen and I dare to call them conversations with dolls. I don't literally hear them talking (I've been asked this, so to be clear...), but that inner conversation happening while I craft helps me to find new perspectives, reminds me of my values, shows me the way, so I dare to say that dolls talk to me, materials reveal secrets and I have a lot of teachers right at my fingers. My only teachers in doll making have been dolls that I make.

Does this make any sense to you or I sound like the lady who has lost her sanity long ago?

#dollmaker #crafter #artist

**andie werk-zeug** @anlu777@pixelfed.social · 6d

andie werk-zeug @anlu777@pixelfed.social

get your super clothes/shoes local & some of my ceramic goodies & silberschmuck

at Faccani, Babarino, SH, ampeln-/brunnengasse

andie werk-zeug.
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**andie werk-zeug** @anlu777@pixelfed.social · 6d

andie werk-zeug @anlu777@pixelfed.social

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**andie brassat** @anlu777@mastodon.social · 6d *

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andie brassat @anlu777@mastodon.social

Meine Threema-ID:
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**Anti Commerciële Actie Beweging** @AntiCommercieleActieBeweging@todon.nl · Apr 2 *

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Anti Commerciële Actie Beweging @AntiCommercieleActieBeweging@todon.nl

@MishaVelthuis Don’t know what you mean by ‘cool’, but Rubberbear Berlin recommends Kinky Market Berlin as cool (Rubberbear makes wearable and kinky gear from used inner tubes. Especially her crow vest is super cool!) #vegan #recycled #handcraft #berlin #kinky