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OUIJA

Ouija Mint Tin

This was a super fun commission – someone mailed me this tin and asked for a scene. This is a story to which I keep returning.

Ouija scene open

Ouija work in progress

Ouija scene

Here’s the “wanna get weird fellow” again.

Wanna get weird guy

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The Ghost in the Grandmother Clock

Tin box shaped like a house

The inspiration for this comes from family, and in particular, my grandmother.

Rosamond Laurie Doran died before I was born, in Panama.  She was a nurse.

The names on the tombstones belong to the dead raccoons that were killed by cars. They are buried in my yard.

graveyard with tombstones

There is a ghost in the clock – shrouded, because I’ve never met this particular ghost.

inside the haunted house

Ghost in the grandmother clock

Symbols of the Doran Family

Above the bolo knife is a painting my grandmother made.  It’s the only thing I have of hers.  It hangs in my dining room, and she signed it. She was quite beautiful.

Rosamond Doran

I often sense that she looks after me.

Grandma Doran's painting

Tiny paper-cut flowers

 

 

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Always

This is for my upcoming show at School 33. The banner reads “Until Death Us Do Part, Yet Forever in the Heart.”  This is an old soap case, which I presume once held soap. This scene shows the initial reunion of dead lovers in the Land of the Dead.