The Sand Baby Castaway Story by Glenda Rolle.
I was walking along the beach one sunny afternoon and came across some odd looking rubbish. What was this washed up treasure? Looking closer, the small unwanted figure became clear. I picked up the sandy doll and as the weight pulled the head back, it winked at me. Since that magical day, I have found a total of 100 dolls. While in search to find them loving homes I have built them miniature "RESCUED" crates for their arrival. They come with a SOS message in a bottle and each are numbered and signed. Rescue your very own Sand Baby Castaway!
The Sand Baby Castaways are filled and coated with actual sand. They are about 12" in full length and most of the time they sit sloped in a distressed position. Their little faces show the wear of their travels as rusty eye hooks hold the frail limbs together. Mean hungry seagulls have hollowed out one eye, but the babies are thankful for their remaining blinky blue eye. They arrive in a personal wooden RESCUED crate included with a small SOS message in a bottle. The note is signed in the order the babies were discovered by Glenda Rolle.
The world-wide infection caused by an unidentified bacterial organism has spread giving rise to Pesticide Dolls! Their tender appendages are ripe with the color of blood (red sand). The poisoned dolls show wires that have sprouted from the faces and stitched around their empty socket. The tiny head has expanded as screws have spindled from the inside out. Each Pesticide Doll comes with a Bio-Hazard Report numbered and signed by the Reporting Doctor, Glenda Rolle.
Sand Baby Castaways are my first limited edition dolls and only 100 have been created.
There are only 10 custom edition Pesticide Dolls made in the poisoned series.
Where do you make dolls and how are they produced?
Mostly in my art studio and if my creative juices are not there then I'm on location. The sites vary anywhere from the beach to the wilderness. The Sand Baby Castaways were created partially on the beach, (ahhh the sound of the waves while working is so niceÉ) but most of my time was spent in the studio. Sand was EVERYWHERE!!! Because of this, I renamed my art studio "The Sandy Studio" until the project was finished. The dolls were complete after long hours of coating and layering lacquer amongst sand to the molded bodies and attaching the limbs with rusty eyehooks. The process can be viewed at: Sand Baby Castaways Movie
