The Macabre Dolls & Doll Sculptures of Eleanor Boyce

It's bedlam in the Nursery!!! As soon as the dollies realised they were up for an intial on-mass phot0 shoot they became very over excited, especially when they were told their portraits would be on the world-wide web! All night long they were chattering, preening themselves, sharpening their teeth, filing their claws to points, smoothing their whiskers, polishing their blood and vomit. Come the morning it got worse. They started shouting and screeching, pushing and jostling each other to get out of the cabinets to be the first in line for the camera!

Though quieter now, they are whispering fantasies and dreams of where their portraits may be hung. HUNGRY HARRIET wants hers to be hung in a kitchen, BIRDETTA longs to be in a handsome boy's bedroom, RABBITINA desires a room with a view, preferably overlooking a vegetable patch, and VOMITESSA has notions of being displayed above the counter of a fast-food outlet (she has a wicked humour). These are just a few that I could make out.

SKULLION has different ideas altogether. Nothing to do with portraits. He once heard of a gnome who travelled far and had many adventures. He wants that too. He fancies himself riding a camel in the desert, as a star in a ballet, as a presiding judge of a courtroom and on stage with the Rolling Stones amongst other things!

There is never a dull moment here!!!

Some of the NURSERY CRYMES dolls have taken to wearing Guy Fawkes masks and shouting "We are Legion" and "Fuck the System!" at the top of their voices at unexpected times of the day and night. On top of this, I keep having to eject them from my study and repeatedly turn off my pc. The little buggers are creeping in there to engage in on-line activities with theit new found masked friends.... or should I say "bros and sisses"?

The only things these particular dolls talk about now are chemtrails, GMO, corrupt bankers, criminal governments, the elite one per cent, corporate tax evasion, drone wars, paedophile rings and the like. This sets the others off groaning, and when they groan these little anarchists respond by bleeting in chorus and calling them "sheep." The Nursery has become a hotbed of conflict and political oration these last couple of weeks.

However, the thing that has triggered this off more than anything else, is the fact that these little anon dolls, being victims of child abuse themselves, have discovered a champion in Anonymous. They know that child abusers are the most vile and violent of people who destroy young lives and have become aware that the internet is infested with child pornography. Finding that Anonymous works tirelessly to bring down these websites, pages, blogs etc., and campaign for justice and stronger sentencing, these dolls raise a cheer. It offends them, and rightly so, to be living in a world where child abuse is deemed a less serious crime than possession of weed, or trolling a website.

These dolls are filled with passion and hope, and admittedly, fill me, in turn, with pride (despite being irritating at times). I wait patiently, without disciplining them too much, to see if they will "wake up" the others. If so I will be living with a veritable army of little freedom fighters and may well have to get them their own 'interwebz'.

As I promised them, I have added a link to an Anonymous video here which I hope everyone will take a few minutes to view.