Oooooooooooooo, This is a very cool image!!! Nice textures :)

Dolls have always scared me... and this is no exception: the claustrophobia and anguish I get watching his head like captured in stones with that 2 dimensioned flowers almost celebrating death is freaky, and empowered perfectly by the texture. Thanx for the shiver, scary one, but good to feel it anyway :)

I agree with gallimel, this image is scary. It seems to evoke long lost memories that are not good and sunny. The texture underline the feeling. It is a strong image from long ago.

one word describes my feelings for this: wonderful

Bev, VERY invoking memory wise. The use of the doll sends mixed signals to the old brain center (actually to the brain stem area) that run rather disturbingly around and around. I think for me it is the position of the dolls limbs (the one seems pinned under a board) and the way it seems to plead with its eyes to be rescued or at the very least "picked up". (more back at the forum...)

Very emotionally disturbing image. It captures the very essence of memory-- beautiful and grotesque, happy and melancholy, etc. The image of something that has long ago died and yet is still alive, not wanting to be forgotten.

Well realised Bev, quite an accomplished piece of art! :-)>

The doll is clearly discarded, abandoned, forgotten, but the expression on the doll's face, and the plucked flower seem to suggest there were many good times prior to the current time. Well done, Bev!

I agree Stars. Fonderful piece, its not easy to raise emotions like this.

i just came across this....i love the textures and the background....as Bon said...simply wonderful

makes me wonder what happened to my dolls .. great piece luv the textures

Very creepy but it's cool! It has an Alfred Hitchcock kinda' vibe : )

Exceptional artwork!!! - Brilliant composition with a giant powerpack of emotions... very captivating our souls :-)

Gosh Bev, I missed this when you posted it (as usual), but I had to comment late anyway. I looked at this for a long time. To me, it's so sad; something from the past that was so wonderful, now abandoned and forgotten, but the good memories live on. Sounds kind of silly, but that's what I felt. Great job. You got a lot out of that doll!

I like how you can turn normal subjects that are supposed to bring joy into somewhat melancholic beings, coated with a sense of despair.

Superbly done with great skill and artistry!

fixed sight towards something unknown - what those eyes are seeing?

This is the twisted clutch and pain, naivity, and layered, forbidden and untended hopes and dreams and all the conflicting emotions I imagine might have been part of my birthmother's experience during all of my years. I kept thinking of that throughout much of your "doll decay" series. Really interesting images. ty!

A beutiful and symbolic image.I love your depth of expression through your work.A sense of cleansing occurs to me with much of your Art.

Your light here in this image is speaking loudly from the past?! Remembering to my childhood, I can see some dark days there :( ... only a few :) ... this image 'remembers'.

I love the wooden textures in this!!!!