Title:
"Tiny man - the doll of a lifetime"
Digital painting and video by Bo Lessing, 2271
Work ID: 98-64
No. of versions: 10
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Work ID: 98-64-v01
The woman in the blue dress holds a small boy doll that has been with her since childhood. He doesn't seem to have childlike facial features and thus either has portrait and adult from while the girl - was little - analog to the Ken dolls or the "action figures" of the pre-robot times. Or that doll has been sent out the "service" with the intention to parallel his age with the coming of age of the girl.
The girl didn't get bored of him, she still feels a strong emotional attachment to him. She loves him despite his unrealistic size and looks.
The other figures of the painting, actually even more so in case for the later versions, give wide room for interpretation.
Explanation of the text elements:
1 - "Tiny Man"
2 - "I love you"
3 - "Really?""
4 - The doll you play with all your life"
5 - "Hallo | Halo""
6 - "Brain or not?""
7 - "?" --- The question mark refers to a small drawing next to it that, says Lessing, depicts a small group of people packed into a boat.
Versions of the painting
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Work ID: 98-64-v02
Title: "Very mysterious doll"
With a bit of irony, this version speaks the mind of the typical recipient of a contemporary (or modern or often even classic) art work who hasn't yet read about the artwork he/she is viewing . What might mean what?
The handwriting is so far from good readability that it well symbolizes the insecurity even of formulating the questions one would like to ask the work or its artist.
Explanation of the text elements:
1 - "Very mysterious - must be art"
2 - "Her role?"
3 - "Looking at what?" --- Probably at the main character or the boy doll in her hand.
4 - [???] "cry?"
5 - "What is this to mean?"
6 - "Why is she drooling?"
7 - "?" --- This seems to be a small group of very tiny people, maybe squeezed on a small boat.
8 - "Girls?"" --- the line is pointing a a standing girl, and on her top right there is a larger head visible, painted with the same colors.
9 - [arrow pointing up] "I"s that a person? Doing what?"
10 - [arrow pointing up]"I want?"
11 - [in the style of a product review on Amazon] "High art relevant levels: inaccessibility: *****; Mystery: *****; Enigma: *****; Ugliness: ***; Provocation: **; Elitist impact: ***"
Work ID: 98-64-v03
Lessing has chosen a rather sexualized context for this version of the Tiny Man. Three women have their tongues stick out, the second from the right is presenting her behind to the viewer, the central woman on the left has her eyes rolled up and drools heavily.
Well, it's again up to the viewer to imagine the narrative of the scene.
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Work ID: 98-64-v04
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Work ID: 98-64-v05
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Work ID: 98-64-v06
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Work ID: 98-64-v07
In this version two women seem to fight over the Tiny Man. A third woman, being a drawing only in the other versions, has a painted face here (upper right of Tiny Man).
Work ID: 98-57-v08
When buying the work series 98-64 this version only the plain artwork would be given, without the room / wall / viewer.
Work ID: 98-57-v09
When buying the work 98-64 this version only the plain artwork would be given, without the room / wall / viewer.
Work ID: 98-57-v10
And here the final version with "Childhood memories" written on it.
Each version is a one-of-a-kind original artwork.
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