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Gothic Lolita

Artist Beth Robinson, once a painter, traded in paintbrushes for human hair and antique fabrics, and started making what she calls “strange dolls.”

Inspired by Japanese “ball-joint dolls” and put in surreal scenarios Robinson left behind portraiture to, as she says, “take the characters off the canvas.”

“I’d never seen the doll treated as an art form like that before,” Robinson said. “I literally went to Borders and got a book on dollmaking.”

From there, Robinson created an international name for herself, making dolls out of Polymer clay and a variety of other objects for people all over the world, from both custom requests and her own ideas......

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