large gothic artdoll with a black thorn cage with two ghostly white smaller porcelain dolls held in the cage

close-up gothic artdoll face repaint pale red-rimmed blue eyes, black ringlets, white lace collar

close-up detail of vinyl doll arm with cut wrist suicide scar wearing white gauze

two pale ghostly gothic artdolls dressed in white in a black thorn cage

Secrets & Scars

Mixed Media Artdoll Assemblage

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29″H x 12″W x 17″D

A “black secret” in the psyche… the sorrowful error; scars are the proof that we have lived through a great something.

Secrets & scars are equal parts pain & wisdom.

Certain hurts, harms & shames can never be done being grieved… but by revealing the secrets, they lose their power & the wound can finally heal.

"When our secrets are told
a new life can unfold
and the healing that waits
can begin.

The old wounds tell the tale
of the courage & betrayal
and that scars
are much stronger than skin."