Pumpkins… and more birds.

And a little about the process of creating.

I started making pumpkin dolls about two months ago, specifically for the upcoming lovely dark holiday… I was about half way finished with these beguilers, when a whole other little world started developing in my brain, or rather a continuation of one… and I needed to work on that as well. Winged birds standing alongside un-winged birds, standing alongside wing-ed semi-human forms, standing alongside something that is perhaps something in the middle or perhaps it’s own other thing entirely. And here we are. They all coexist in, i don’t think exactly the same place, but close by.

Here are some of the pumpkins…

and here are some of the rest of the Birds of Seldom.

i don’t feel as if I’m quite done with this world. I don’t think I’ve quite left yet. The manic feeling I get when working on these dolls hasn’t subsided and I feel a certain frenetic energy and need to keep going. I think as the days get shorter and darker, I am pulled more inward. I also have a need to for a new group of beings that started coming to me last month while on the seacoast. I’m not sure who will come next. Really, I just wish I didn’t need to sleep, or brush my teeth, or eat so that I could just stay in my world and make dolls all the time.

but, my dentist wouldn’t be happy about that.

stay safe and well, and enjoy these beautiful darkening days.

xo

jana