My aunt and cousins
Created in 2005 / Repaired in 2011
Fabric, thread, craft cotton, paper clay, cosmetics

From the left
H35×W32×D23cm
H38×W36×D36cm
H37×W35×D26cm
 

These three dolls were made with a personal, inward purpose.

It could also be said her motive was a pure urgency.

The meaning in that particularly is that their position is close to outsider art in lineage. 

It has a strong flavor of personal storytelling.

However it is a condensed version of her succeeding creations whose cores are made up the images of family, femininity, and motherhood.

It can be said that this is the prototype of the works in her later years in that it embodies the dolls as the dream of a little girl.

In addition, these dolls are objects to fill a psychological void – as if to say they are the price of the family she has lost –nestled up in a private space over the course of many years.

By borrowing the figure of a sculptured group of women, the objects become semiotic equivalents of her mother. 

These dolls deriving from a personal need, such as her longing for her family or the obsessive-compulsiveness of her actions, belong in a “raw” category of “not yet art” and “insufficient expression.”

It is one of her early major works that has become the starting point from where her creative stance developed into what it is today.