Alice of Alice Dolls - Cultural & Luxury BJD
Mar 10, 2017 6:52:05 GMT -8
Post by alicedolls on Mar 10, 2017 6:52:05 GMT -8
Hi, all!
My name is Alice and I'm an illustrator and doll designer based in Bucharest, Romania.
Here's a bit about me and my unique doll project - a project that acts as a cultural vector for my Romanian heritage. Our mythology and folklore which embody all our pre-Christian beliefs are very fascinating - the legends, the fairytales, traditions, our particular folkloric clothing, all this is a cultural assembly for our identity and I feel that through dolls I can communicate and share with you all this universal beauty
As you know, you don’t need to be a child to play – play is what gets us closer to what is beyond the reasoning life, it connects us to our deeper self. How wonderful to do so with such culturally rich, meaningful objects!
The dolls celebrate Romanian mythology & folklore- each of them represents a known deity (sometimes more through symbols and visual representations than through actual words) which was celebrated for tenths of thousands of years on our territory. Tightly connected to this is the beautiful aesthetics of our traditional culture (which has roots exactly to those ancient cultures) which through millenias still transfer spiritual values to us through powerful symbols. As … put it, “symbols transmit that which words will never be able to.” That is why they have more power and “live” longer to “tell” the tale. This time, through Alice Dolls.
Why dolls? This project contains a prohane, earthly aspect – the actual doll, and a higher, spiritual meaning to what the doll actually represents – the Deity. They blend beautifully, slightly reminding me of our own dual, yet inseparable exact same natures.
Me by Alice Dolls, on Flickr
22 by Alice Dolls, on Flickr
The Bee Fairy Doll - Luxury BJD by Alice Dolls, on Flickr
Bendis Doll - Luxury BJD by Alice Dolls, on Flickr
All the best from Bucharest!
My name is Alice and I'm an illustrator and doll designer based in Bucharest, Romania.
Here's a bit about me and my unique doll project - a project that acts as a cultural vector for my Romanian heritage. Our mythology and folklore which embody all our pre-Christian beliefs are very fascinating - the legends, the fairytales, traditions, our particular folkloric clothing, all this is a cultural assembly for our identity and I feel that through dolls I can communicate and share with you all this universal beauty
As you know, you don’t need to be a child to play – play is what gets us closer to what is beyond the reasoning life, it connects us to our deeper self. How wonderful to do so with such culturally rich, meaningful objects!
The dolls celebrate Romanian mythology & folklore- each of them represents a known deity (sometimes more through symbols and visual representations than through actual words) which was celebrated for tenths of thousands of years on our territory. Tightly connected to this is the beautiful aesthetics of our traditional culture (which has roots exactly to those ancient cultures) which through millenias still transfer spiritual values to us through powerful symbols. As … put it, “symbols transmit that which words will never be able to.” That is why they have more power and “live” longer to “tell” the tale. This time, through Alice Dolls.
Why dolls? This project contains a prohane, earthly aspect – the actual doll, and a higher, spiritual meaning to what the doll actually represents – the Deity. They blend beautifully, slightly reminding me of our own dual, yet inseparable exact same natures.
Me by Alice Dolls, on Flickr22 by Alice Dolls, on FlickrThe Bee Fairy Doll - Luxury BJD by Alice Dolls, on FlickrBendis Doll - Luxury BJD by Alice Dolls, on FlickrAll the best from Bucharest!
