Arcania keeps her
secrets hidden.
She looks the other
way, pretending the secrets do not exist.
That’s the only way
she can keep from sharing them,
because secrets are
meant to be kept.
The owner of secrets
has power.
When you possess
secrets, you are allowed to be selfish,
because once secrets are
shared, they are no longer secrets,
and their power
disappears.
Arcania is the result of an indescribably wonderful ReTREAT attended by our
Doll Club, the Space Coast Doll Artists (see us at www.spacecoastdollartists.com
) Our talented leader Patty Briggs brought supplies, techniques, and expertise
to teach us how to make a woods-fairy type doll that incorporated a variety of techniques.
“Arcania” (from the word “arcane” which means “secret” or “mysterious”) is made
from a soft-sculpted cloth body covered with paper clay, mounted on an altered
repurposed plastic bottle (expertly carved by Patty’s husband John to reveal
the inside of the “tree). The body was then painted to look like wood, and
embellished with dyed cheesecloth, yarn hair, tiny beaded necklace, and altered
Tyvek wings.
The base was made from a masonite panel found at the
Reusable Resources Adventure Center (visit them at
www.reusecenterbrevard.org)
and trimmed out in balsa wood to contain a mossy ground, a
fitting place for Arcania to be while guards her treasures!
