Pippy Show
Anon

The 'Pippy Show' images depict a female figure or poppet (ritual doll). Both dolls are transitional objects, representing the 'wounded bride,' holding safe space and acting as containers for confusion, raw emotions and suicidal thoughts. The contrast between death, distress and joy, beginnings and endings, promises and betrayal, fecundity, hope and desolation are the themes of these pieces, processed with a healing ritual of mark-making, scratching with scalpels, binding, piercing, burning, cauterising, stitching and embellishing.

These pieces are part of a collection of work that were spontaneously 'born' during Covid lockdowns they arose through a sudden need to revisit and process wounds and painful personal history, whilst following a shamanic path of healing, looking at ancestral wounds and shadow-work.