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WAR ON CHILDREN
Helen Compton's dark memorial for murdered children: bolted and nailed into a 9.5" w x 18.5" h box of weathered chestnut are the torn and broken pieces of a child's life: china doll-parts, photos, drawings, toys, news clippings and dried roses
$ 785
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portrait-doll: BOXED
by Helen Compton:Gold-masked, with flying hair, her barbie- limbs emerge from a gold- rubbed box with artifacts inside-- animal parts, stamps, currency, poetry, game-parts and old letters ...perhaps expresseing the conflict of living in safety but longing for freedom of expression.
$ 425
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Compton: KITCHEN PUPPET
FUNNY "kitchen witch" by Helen Compton:... her brain is a cookie index; she is a collection of bowls and spoons, about 18" high, a wild-haired functionary dressed in kitchen hardware, made of rags, cloth, string, alpaca wool, cutlery, chicken-bone, and other wild objects
$ 275
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Compton: POLYCHRONIC
15-16" high, made of doll parts, hair, string, cloth, paper & assorted hardware, a puppet mounted in a box.
$ 495
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Compton: UNCLOSETED
Age is the darkening closet which catches and traps us all, crumpling up the future as it devoured the past ; but an artist can still break open the box and forge her own small weapons, bits of mind- music to take with her Into the singing void. One-of-a-kind, made of barbie- parts, cloth, string, hair, and assorted nails & hardware, mounted in a 14"-high black box which opens up and which she seems to be about to burst out of
$ 695
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Compton: FLIGHT
A woman in flight metamorphosing into a bird. One-of-a-kind, made of doll parts, hair, wool, string, nails, wood, antique cloth, and sparrow's wings
$ 395
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Compton: COCOONED
She is wrapped up and bound, partially smothered, the artist inturrupted... for now. Made of barbie- parts, string, yarn, nails, and alpaca wool, mounted (trapped) in a black box with glass and antique hardware
$ 595
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Compton: CANNED
She is breaking out, with painted poetry on her body: wild-haired Barbie has graffiti on her limbs, her middle section is a shiny can which is locked and chained, a metaphor for the constrictions on her own creativity; about 12" h
$ 275
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Compton: TIME DANCER
Sculpture wearing gold mask, about 18" tall, Barbie-limbs and wild silky hair, torso made of brass drawer-pull mounted on a green calculator's electronic chip- board: she is a bundle of impulses, a series of numbers, expressing the need for music, poetry, emotion while there is still time... newly mounted in box, dancing around a clock-face
$ 795
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Compton: IRON VENUS
Compton's meditation on childhood and maturity. This doll stands In her iron girdle of nails and gears... About 15" tall, mounted on tapestry-covered backdrop, made of china doll-parts, wearing feathers, lace, boots...living a contradiction
$ 395
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PERPETUITA (TIME WARRIOR)
Another in Compton's "Time" series: made of barbie-parts, clock-pieces, lamp-parts, brass hardware, and clutching parts of a clock as weapons. She is girded for battle to fight TIME, destroyer of beauty. Suspended in a black wood frame, About 16" h.
$ 575
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