Finalist for the Mosman Art Prize 2009
I saw some paper cut out dolls at a friend's place made by her daughter and it struck me as such an evocative motif. After several efforts with scissors and much snipping I made my own version and decided to arrange them so they appear to be dancing out of the book rather like a narrative. Their repetitive shapes interested me as did the shadows made by the pages of the book. The candle stick I thought looked rather like an authoritarian figure: a grand narrative in his own right and the wooden puppet sitting on the book is the audience. That was my thinking on one level; on another, I liked the different whites of the candle, paper and wood which leads the eye around the composition.
