(Other, strange dolls).

... Why do you make such scary dolls? .. You can often hear the question of an inexperienced viewer who is ready to accept understandable standards of beauty with joy. Where does so many authors want to create imperfect and sometimes terrifying characters?

Reflecting on this topic comes the understanding that in the world in which we live, along with undoubted beauty and attractiveness, there are also unpleasant images.

  Two sides of the coin.

Our life is dual. Beauty and its absence go hand in hand, like Yin and Yang. Both positive and negative emotions, like day and night. One helps to understand and accept the other. And the author's skill and high art is manifested not only in beautiful, from the usual point of view, images, but also in alternative ones.

British artist Tash Pollard Tach Pollard works with hawthorn wood. The author draws inspiration from the myths and spiritual traditions of various peoples of the world.

Looking at the "unusual" dolls, you begin to understand that you see, along with your experiences, the reflection of the life stories of the authors, their richest inner world.

Dustin Poche's dolls, Kansas USA

Dustin Poche 'designer dolls, Kansas USA: “I am very pleased to see how people react to my art. Every reaction means that the piece evoked emotions, and that's what makes me continue to develop. "

The world through the prism of alternatives.

"Unusual" dolls help to explore the spiritual world of a person, show the existing situation in a new perspective. Working through our fears and psychological trauma, dolls make us think about something serious, showing our attitude to the world.

Julian Martinez (JULIEN MARTINEZ), France

Oksana Muratova, Moscow

Studying the SECRET ...                                                             

In world culture, author's alternative dolls undoubtedly have their own special place and their own secret. They help us maintain a moral world of values. Raising and developing imagination, they form a harmonious, creative beginning. Only in this way, choosing with our souls, we find our images in the world of thousands of dolls.

Anne Marie Gibbons dolls, USA

Anne Marie Gibbons dolls, USA

Larisa Stepanova, St. Petersburg; “… This is my way of speaking with you, because you cannot always express yourself in words. And even if someone did not understand you, this is not a reason to shut up ... "

Denise Bledsoe, USA

Amanda Louise Spade, Ohio, USA. She perceives her creations as a symbol of the mysterious forces of nature.

Amanda creates perfectly designed "human teeth" from plastic. These monsters look quite frightening, but soon, you begin to feel an inexplicable charm in their glass eyes and cute ears ...

Johnson Tsang Hong Kong, China

Some "Alternative" dolls leave such a deep mark in the viewer's perception that it is not immediately possible to overshadow him with other impressions. And only, after a while, you understand, your worldview has changed. You start to think about the thoughts that you tried not to get from the depths of your soul. This is a kind of art therapy.

Artists show the way, and everyone is free to go through it himself, because love and creativity are manifested in different ways.

Photos taken from open sources on the Internet

Cover photo: work by a British artist Tach Pollard

With love and respect, Tatiana Kalinina  @tatakalinyshka