Large November is for Narvy

I hope you'll enjoy these portraits (pretty simple but playing with different outdoor lighting) of Marina, my Aria Doll Narvy on Iplehouse nYID body at Botanica in Wichita.

(If my photo host is showing broken images they should work again later/or you can click through to the links of images, this is a common problem unfortunately.)



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Thanks for looking
faceup, clothing, jewelry by me
glass eyes, modified For My Doll wig

 

Thank you everyone for your nice comments I know my response here is very belated. Been kind of a weird reclusive month.

@aihre those were my favorite pics too. Honestly it was a very uninspired photography attempt that trip. I simply do not love this garden like I loved the one in Corpus so it's challenging getting shots I'm excited about. Those were good though! I really appreciate what you say about the pathos and everything. I struggle with art making and I always want to believe someone would look at the stuff I manage to do and see some real meaning in it. I do playfully believe my dolls are all super charmingly haunted by now and I think our deep emotional relationship must come out in photos.

@cobaltconduct thank you! I feel like she is way more variable in her moods than other dolls I have (I'm sure it's my imagination, though I still enjoy believing in my dolls being supernatural/paranormal as well) it's nice when she is looking so optimistic. It's always curious how you can change dolls with new shifts in colors and environments.

Thank you @Eos'puppy shes got great lips and the dark color felt a little serious to me at first but I really like it. I think it's super glamorous and fashionable.

@RabbidBunnies I always appreciate your nice comments thanks for all the support!

 

Thank you @Girlfriend7 , @Arengil

@aihre I do not mind at all! Quite the contrary

Nobody has to read this but if you want to I love

Spoiler: Talking about concepts and process

Back when I was using social media I used to enjoy talking more about my process there too, and I'm sure you remember. Now I've become more withdrawn but the purpose of my hobby remains the same. The series of snapshots of friends and loved ones as my concept for my photos really took off when I had the chance to do such frequent phone photography living in South Texas. Emotion, nostalgia, sentimentality, memories, stories of human connection are what I like to convey best. The last two years when I lost the routine of doing this with my dolls I've been doing it instead with an old Kodak film camera and my partner as a frequent subject. That's the work I periodically post on lomography and Flickr now. With the film photo series spanning nearly two years now I felt I had the opportunity to approach in a more real life context (again) some things I had approached through doll photography before. Context is definitely a big part of it. Film photos cost money and delay gratification in a world where that's no longer the norm for photography. So I think such series are interesting because you know they show the viewer images that were important enough to someone to really be worth remembering later. I look back and feel the same personal impact in both the human and doll series, which made me feel like I was ultimately successful with both projects. The doll stuff is more of a stretch because it imitates the sentiments of photos of living loved ones, but I also think the context of having photographed only dolls for years and moving back to a human subject makes the mundane human photos more fascinating.

Sometimes I felt like my doll photos were too unremarkable at a glance compared to other hobbyists incredible works, very well posed, highly narrative and expertly refined. But I ultimately feel confident about my intentional style, something amateur in some ways but hopefully poignant.

So thanks for your comments I always really appreciate them! and thanks to anyone who reads such long comments I make I really like the opportunity to discuss concepts and contexts of art.