Nita Collins’ doll-sculptures creep me out and exhilarate me. Disturbing, beautiful, verging on the grotesque, delicately crafted, flawlessly executed, melancholically tender, realistic to the point of being unnerving – adorned with puckered scars, ragged holes in chests, and a panoply of peculiar, unique marks on their flesh that seem to have come straight from Nita’s imagination and heart – the tortured, sweetly exquisite bodies and faces of these dolls are a singular, constant mixture of provocative and moving. They are lovingly scarred, divinely imagined, different from any other dolls I’ve seen. Nita Collins has a unique talent manifest in these gorgeous, poignant art-dolls.
Ancient…Innocent….Genius.
This is the most unnerving, beautiful, disgusting and skilled work I’ve seen in a long time. Amazing.
@ Jeremy: I agree! For me, I found it both beautiful and obscene, and that’s what I loved about it.
creepy *-*
L O V E IT!