Auction #12: The Ordinary Made Alien

November 12th, 2009

The Child Empress of Mars by C. Jane WashburnThe Child Empress of Mars
by C. Jane Washburn

15″ tall x 12″ long Art Doll – Mixed Media: wire, tape, polyclay, semi-precious stones, found objects, fur scraps, silk, acrylics.

Based On:
“The Child Empress of Mars” by Theodora Goss

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I’m a doll artist blending natural and man-made materials to create mythic creatures. I loved this story and the way that making a piece of art for it stretched my boundaries (and hurt my brain! ouch). Making the Empress was both very fun and very challenging. I’m fascinated with seeing the ordinary as alien and the alien as ordinary in my art and this piece is a reflection of that as well as an illustration of a most excellent and thoroughly enjoyable story told from an alien point of view.

C. Jane Washburn

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7 Responses to “Auction #12: The Ordinary Made Alien”

  1. Jennifer on November 13, 2009 2:19 pm

    She is made of awesome!!! This is beautiful. I want to order a commission from Jane.

  2. Shira Lipkin on November 15, 2009 12:14 am

    Jaw-drop stunning, seriously. Alien beauty and grace.

  3. Chandra Peltier on November 15, 2009 4:17 pm

    As a doll artist, I am particularly taken with this piece. This truly smacks of fine art!

  4. Geoffrey Long on November 15, 2009 6:33 pm

    I love this thing – but it also gives me the heebie-jeebies. The two might not be unrelated.

  5. Ellen Denham on November 15, 2009 8:23 pm

    Wow! What an exquisite, creepy creature.

  6. carisa on November 17, 2009 10:23 am

    Beautiful work…an arresting piece!

  7. Ellen Kushner on November 18, 2009 11:15 pm

    Hey, everyone: the artist has posted photos of this piece as Work-in-Progress here:

    http://bleaknimue.livejournal.com/467315.html

    It makes it a little less scary . . . and, if possible, even more magnificent!

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