The Abstract Dollhouse

Meet The Cast

Spot these dolls throughout the house.

A doll with a white ceramic body and oversized fabric arms. The arms are a tan flannel on top and a bright pink floral fabric underneath, and end with four-fingered hands. White yarn is woven through many holes in the body, and three empty holes for eyes stand out on the head.

Hug Doll

Height: 3.5in
Weight: 1lb 3oz

A creature-like doll with a ceramic body and a white braided yarn tail. The ceramic is glazed in a pale mottled green, and the long neck curves upward into a rounded head with two serene closed eyes. The tail is attached inside the body and flows outward, ending in four tufted ends.

Gentle Kelpie

Height: 4.5in
Weight: 1lb 6oz

A doll that appears to be a simple, cave-like ceramic form. Holes at the top and sides of the white clay act as portholes to the inside, which the open front reveals as a colorful landscape of abstract felted forms and nested glass beads.

Secrets

Height: 4.5in
Weight: 1lb 13oz

A small ceramic form that appears to be melting into the surface it sits on. The object is rounded like a baby doll's head and glazed in a drippy coating of bright blue, dusty green, and pale red.

Baby

Height: 2.2in
Weight: 4oz

A yarn doll consisting of a long tail of loose white strands at one end, and a puff of brushed acrylic fiber at the other.

Wisp

Height: 24in
Weight: 0.6oz

A braided yarn doll lounging dramatically against a small box. The doll is a dark pumpkin color, with a long, skinny body and limbs. The head is formed from a knot and several loops.

Dancer

Height: 10.5in
Weight: 0.2oz

Two dolls, one nesting in the other. They are both plain white ceramic objects, with a rounded shape and a hole on either side. The smaller doll is similar in size and shape to an egg, with deep finger impressions on one end. The larger doll has white fiber fluff visible through its holes, an indent on the front, and a gentle dip on the top that is filled with wax, cushioning the smaller doll that sits in it.

Progenitor & Egg

Height: 4in & 2in
Weight: 1lb 4oz & 2oz

A large, bright blue, blob-like doll with a needle felted surface. The shape is plain, round, and easily squished.

Squish

Height: 5in
Weight: 2lb 3oz

A ball-like doll with a needle felted surface. Swirls of blue, hot pink, and lavender give the spherical form a planetary appearance.

Swirl

Height: 4.2in
Weight: 13oz

A blue and purple needle felted doll with a round body, small featureless head, and two thick limbs sticking off the sides. The limbs are rounded at the tips.

Spaceboy

Height: 2.8in
Weight: 0.7oz

Two dolls standing side by side, each made from a plastic bottle. Both are relatively featureless and are filled with colorful objects like fake flowers, fiber fluff, glitter, and buttons. The doll on the left is thickly wrapped with white yarn at the top. The doll on the right is wrapped with a smaller amount of white yarn, with an aluminum cap and a blue fabric flower on top.

Siblings

Height: 7in
Weight: 3.6oz & 4.2oz

A tiny doll made from a champagne cork, red and purple fabric flowers, a round wood bead for a head, and a bobby pin sticking through the bead and flowers, into the top of the cork.

Fairy

Height: 3.2in
Weight: 0.4oz

A thin, flat cardboard doll with a round shape and two closed eyes. Poseable legs and arms stick off of the brown body, and the arms end in clusters of pointed, white paper ovals, resembling flowers.

Coconut Friend

Height: 4in
Weight: almost nothing

An amorphous black fabric doll that sits like a beanbag. Colorful buttons of various sizes are stitched onto one end, while the other end has many tufts of black yarn.

Morph

Height: 4in
Weight: 1lb 2oz