A Reflection ~
Hello, it’s me Lola, I feel I need to share this all with you and to share some things about me.
I’ve debated about bringing this up publicly and decided it really is something I need to do. It’s about something that has been happening for the last few years, especially since I started sculpting dolls.
That something is the smear campaign about Atelier Momoni/myself as a person. Just in case you don’t know Atelier Momoni is me, one person, Lola, doing everything. This smear campaign is run by who I believe to be a very small number of people.
For the last 4 years there has been a considerable amount of complaints about how ugly my work is. I have also been called c*nt or b*tch just for fun, even when the rules of those places don’t allow slurs. It’s a bit shocking since I never considered myself that popular to get this amount of attention.
Some of you may have your own beliefs about why I started sculpting dolls after many years (2004~2013) of only sewing clothes for bjd. I actually have been told that I should have just remained sewing doll clothes, and that I don’t deserve the privilege of sculpting because I am not from France. The reason I started sculpting dolls is because I just had this need to. I wanted to, this reason should be good enough. But I also studied anatomy and took sculpture classes in University, so working with clay and human bodies wasn’t a fully unexplored territory.
I am a big fan of Alchemic Labo and Latidoll (I still have all my dolls) and I have been drawing since I was very young. I wanted to create something interesting, inspired by the things I like and representative of my own drawing style. So yes: my dolls will be inspired by the things I love.
But why make dolls that already exist? I did not want to make a Unoa/Minifee look-alike, I just wanted to do my own doll, a smiling one with a not so rigid, symmetrical smile.
Sculpting dolls is something that I do with my own hands for the pleasure of feeling the clay. It takes long hours of learning and then extra hours of trial and error until I am happy with the result. Like other artists, I am the most critical of my work and I always try to improve and get better to achieve what I have envisioned in my mind.
So please be sure that if my doll seems to you to have a ‘big butt’ it’s because I want my doll to have a ‘big butt’. If my dolls have what people are calling monkey ears, or they are too small or in the wrong spot, be sure that the ears look exactly how I intended them to look. If my faces look asymmetrical with a crooked smile be sure that I am aware of it, how many people have perfectly symmetrical faces? I made these faces with my hands and eyes. I’m not saying everything I do is perfect, of course not… I would be dead as an artist if I thought that I pooped out gold, but please realize I don’t fart out dolls and face-ups either.
Of course each one of us has different tastes, it’s not possible that everyone will love my work. But if you don’t like my work, you can unfollow or block me; All that hate is obviously something to try to put me down. I’m not going to stop because you don’t like my stuff or because you are threatening to recast my dolls, a thing so illogical if they are so ugly, right?
In regards to the public posts about me being a poor seller, if you ever have a transaction problem with me and it can’t be resolved between 2 mature people, those two people being You and I, please go straight to PayPal and open a ce. It is the most logical thing to do. Obviously you will win, PayPal always resolves cases in the Buyer’s favor unless it is a lie and there is no case.
But please do yourself a favor and read the rules prior to ordering anything, I should not be at fault if you do not read them.
By writing this I just want to point out what is happening, I am not trying to call anyone out or display myself as a victim. Hopefully when others look up Atelier Momoni and read negative comments and feedback online, that they also see this info too. And don’t get me wrong, Opinions are like Butts, Everyone has one! You can have your own opinions and thoughts, I just want to point out, please get facts and better info before forming your own Butt, hopefully it’s just as lush as Momoni’s!~ Thanks!
I will say one more time, I am here to stay! And I wouldn’t have been able to get through these years without amazing support and patrons. Thank you for that support and your following me along the way! It’s been 14 years already! Time flies when you enjoy the journey! Here’s to many more wonderful productive years of creating more dolls, clothes and whatever else the future brings, I am so ready for it!! 💕
