dolls – wraithsandstraysofparis

roserosette:

Reference to Hans Bellmer in Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice, (1988, Akio Jissoji).

docpile:

from Smart 5/17&31 1999

justscreenshots:

The Amityville Horror 1979

ohmy80s:

Poltergeist (1982)

congenitaldisease:

The village of Nagoro in southern Japan was once the home to hundreds of families. Over time, however, the majority of the residents left to find work in bigger cities. One resident was Ayano Tsukimi, who left for a number of years before returning a decade ago to look after her elderly father. Today, there’s only 30 residents. Its dwindling community is a microcosm of Japan; the country’s population has been falling for decades.

When Tsukimi returned, she decided to plant her own crops. Upon seeing birds pecking at the seeds, she created a scarecrow that looked like her father. Over the next time years, she made over 350 such scarecrows which today litter the once bustling streets. They sit on benches waiting for the non-existent bus, in empty school classrooms, sleep in trees and pretend to be fishing. Tsukimi creates the scarecrows in memory of former citizens: “When I make dolls of dead people, I think about them when they were alive and healthy.”