A statement from Sonia Singh, the Tasmanian artist behind Tree Change Dolls.
It’s now been just two weeks since I started my tumblr and put up the images of my ‘Tree Change Dolls’ (after encouragement from my partner). I never, ever imagined my work would reach as far and touch as many people as it has!
I have begun working on some new dolls. About 20 of these will be put up on Etsy on 15 Feb, and I plan to create a similar number of Tree Change Dolls each month. As I work on transforming these dolls, my partner will film and put together a few short videos online showing the process. I would also love to publish a photo book depicting the Tree Change Dolls in their outdoor environments.
For sentimental reasons I have decided to keep my original group of dolls with the exception of the two Tree Change Dolls pictured. These two little girls I have now listed on eBay. 20% of the final sale price will be donated to support the good work of the International Women’s Development Agency (www.iwda.org.au).
The rest will help me set up my new small business. (This has all happened so fast!) These dolls are listed through my partner’s eBay account, with user name ‘madang_man’.
The interest, support and response to my work has truly amazed me, and it has only just begun to sink in that this could be a life altering experience. I will to continue to create reused dolls and toys and hope my work inspires other people to experience the joy of creative toys that are personal and unique treasures.
My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has tumbld, reposted, shared, liked, followed, favourited, upped, retweeted, commented, blogged, sent lovely emails etc. I would also like to say thanks to the media outlets that made a donation to IWDA in exchange for using my tumblr images in their publications.
This experience has reaffirmed for me that the special and lasting nature of our connection to childhood toys is universal.
I am looking forward to see what happens from here.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tree-Change-Doll-1-One-of-a-kind-customised-by-Tasmanian-artist-Sonia-Singh-/121556627273?pt=AU_Dolls&hash=item1c4d56ef49
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tree-Change-Doll-2-One-of-a-kind-customised-by-Tasmanian-artist-Sonia-Singh-/121556636575?pt=AU_Dolls&hash=item1c4d57139f
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