Our toys may be quiet… but are they listening and watching attentively..? Sooty has been part of my life for over 50 years, it is a comfort to me that Sooty has been non-judgemental and loves unconditionally in a world that is not so accepting.
I have a compulsion to wrap toys in clingfilm. The cycle of making casts of the toys (63 to date) has a ritualistic feel ….a birthing when they are released and free to breath again …the toy wrapping has become a way of coping with challenges in my life, a feeling of being in control temporarily – in circumstances that are out of my control. When the toy is removed , the resulting “ghost” shells are vessels, their skin like shapes full of memories …