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Here’s my piece for the Luxe Paws Fundraiser Cat Art Show. It’s a peculiar place doll called Cat Fishing. My Peculiar Place Dolls have antique doll bodies with glass sphere heads each containing a visual place of mind that I create with peculiar items. The bodies are made of hand stitched leather stuffed with straw. This doll’s place of mind features a transparent cat looking into a bowl full of iridescent fish in vibrant hues with sparkling jeweled eyes. But as the play on the words in the title suggest, this can also be seen as an invisible predator in plain sight, who has their eye on their prize. Materials: preserved fish, swiss blue topaz, fire sapohire, white sapphire, antique doll body, glass. 20”x8”x3”. This Saturday, June 13th, 12pm PST @stephanieinagaki will be live-streaming on IG from @coprogallery so everyone can view the opening safely from home. A percentage of the sales will go to @luxepaws - a Los Angeles based volunteer street rescue effort, focused on TNR (trap, neuter, return) of the local stray kitty population. Please contact [email protected] for purchasing details. ***I just posted a step by step making video of this piece on my patreon.com/AveRoseArt. If you’d like to see this video as well as my other art videos you can gain access with a subscription starting as low as $3. #averoseart #peculiarplacedolls #catartwork #catthemedart #catfundraiser #luxepaws #oddityart #oddartwork #antiquedoll #creepydollsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CBPYF-rjShK/?igshid=140tb14ao4ooi

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Peculiar Place Doll 4: The Beholder. This is the last doll of this first collection. It has an antique body made of hand-sewn leather, stuffed with straw. Its head is a glass orb containing a grouse paw and a lacebark tree seedpod with genuine pearls. The grouse is associated with The Great Spiral, which is the journey of personal power and the never ending cycles of life and death. When one seeks answers on a vision quest, it is the power of the grouse that carries the universal wisdom around the spiral to the seeker. Seedpods are holders of life. Pearls symbolize wisdom. So the hand that represents the search for enlightenment is presenting to you, an embodiment of life, full of wisdom. This Peculiar Place Doll visually shows enlightenment being the experience of life. That is why it is called the beholder. To behold is to witness through the senses. For more info. about my Peculiar Place Dolls see my previous posts. Special thanks to @harrydiamondantiques for purchasing these first four. #peculiarplacedolls #averoseart #antiquedolls #creepydolls https://www.instagram.com/p/By-4Wp7jpVF/?igshid=1dyuso6edxmlj

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Peculiar Place Doll 2: The Cultivator. It has an antique doll body made of hand sewn leather, stuffed with straw. Its head features black sage flower clusters blooming with quartz crystals. A little yellow butterfly sits upon the top cluster. A cultivator is something that helps things grow. The Native American people of central and Southern California called The Chumash, used Black sage as a pain reliever. And quartz crystals are known as healing stones. In many native American cultures, a yellow butterfly signifies hope. This Peculiar Place Doll visually shows hope cultivating recovery as a place of mind using peculiar items from nature. The crazy thing is this butterfly was collected on May 19, 1978 and I sold this piece on May 19, 2019! To learn more about my Peculiar Place Dolls see my previous posts. Special thanks to @harrydiamondantiques for purchasing these first four. #peculiarplacedolls #averoseart #antiquedolls #creepydolls https://www.instagram.com/p/BymVMtGDSaz/?igshid=zq8620fc49c8

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Peculiar Place Doll 1: The Protector. It has an antique doll body made of hand sewn leather stuffed with straw. It’s head features a snake skeleton protecting a delicate mini rose. The rose’s tiny leaves hold onto the snake’s boney tail. To learn more about my Peculiar Place Dolls see my previous post. Special thanks to @harrydiamondantiques for purchasing these first four. #peculiarplacedolls #averoseart #antiquedolls #creepydolls https://www.instagram.com/p/Bylb6CzjTJO/?igshid=1lqls87ucn01v

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Peculiar Place Dolls This is the beginning of how I started creating my first collection of peculiar place dolls. They have turn of the century (or older), antique doll bodies made of hand sewn leather stuffed with straw. Their legs are jointed. No two are the same. For each doll head I created a visual place of mind using peculiar items protected within a glass sphere. That’s why I’m calling these Peculiar Place Dolls. In this post you can see how I’ve carefully repaired each body. In the next few posts you’ll see the finished dolls. I debuted them @theodditiesfleamarket in LA back in May. Special thank you to @harrydiamondantiques who purchased this entire collection as I was unpacking them when setting up my table! Harry, it was such a pleasure to meet you! He was kind enough to let me display the dolls for the rest of that day and so many expressed fascination and interests, that I decided this was the first collection of more to come. I’ve been collecting these doll bodies for a long time so I’m excited that I finally have a way to turn them into my own art without changing how beautiful they already are. I love how worn and repaired they are, to me it shows how much they were loved. And again I’d like to thank my apprentice @joemm for giving me the idea of making their heads the displays. #averoseart #peculiarplacedolls #antiquedolls #creepydolls #fantasyart #creatureart https://www.instagram.com/p/Byi4SL5D3gO/?igshid=1gngrkiugjpd1