Mirka Mora 'Double-Headed Creature' first nations artist Peter PINSON (1943 - 2017)

Peter PINSON (1943 - 2017)

Her’s is the logic of dreams

trumpeting his message 'Brief and Formal'

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It is for fans of Jacks

Mirka Mora 'Double-Headed Creature' first nations artist Peter PINSON (1943 - 2017)Mirka Moras interest in dolls and puppets, or soft sculpture, began with her theatre and mime training. As an adult she also collected antique dolls, before finally embarking on creating them herself in 1970. The characters she birthed in cloth felt, to Mora, like substitute children; at the time, her sons were living apart from her. Indeed, despite being mere paint and cloth, Moras dolls felt alive. When they were first exhibited in 1971, John Reed