Mindmapping practical research

Vintage paper dolls/50's asthetic

Subvert the witch skin tone - green for bad role models and coercion and flesh for others - woodblocks with babies being offered up to plants used for miscarriage - no devil or green on these

Wood cuts /swap devil for plowers used to induce miscarriage

wood cuts - origins of the world - lil witches and money babies,

Balsa wood house - to cyanotype inside walls.

https://www.craft-products.com/dh041-vellow-cottage-dolls-house-kit - 

  • cyanotype inside - pebbledash outside
  • wallpaper inside walls

Wine prints on ladies - glass of red is the new valium - overlay on apron or wooden utensils?

moved onto Marriage- Mona Chollet - Sylvia Federicci 


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