Looking Back Pt.3 Dummies and Puppets

I have yet to meet the toy sized dummy that isn't inherently creepy........ and this is a good thing.

Some objects should always be imbued with a special , disconcerting quality, and the great cosmic unconsciousness has agreed that dummies are one such object.  No matter that they are wearing a crisp summer-white linen suit, they are still unnerving,  I mean why is he painted in white-face?  Our small elegant Charlie McCarthy used to sit on the instep of the human leg bones, gazing at something only he could see, just beyond me, his hinged jaw ajar, frozen in reaction.

Not creepy at all is the Punch Puppet, he's just old, and the only one of the three that is still available for purchase.    Enjoy.

LookingBack Pt.2 - Squirrels!!!!

Squirrels we have known and loved in the last year....whether it's a fatso holding onto his acorn for dear life while a pigeon looks on,  or the companionship between co-mingling squirrel types,  I have loved every single squirrel that has come through Obscura's doors.  I love them so much that I'm planning a fair isle vest with squirrels rampant as the key element! My only regret is that I don't have photos of every single mount we have had, I lament that I was lax in catching them all on camera, but enjoy these few.

Heartbreak Alert: All of these squirrels have found happy homes, but I believe Mike and Evan has just brought three new ones in.

Looking Back at Looking

My goal is to document the ongoing, everchanging visual vignettes that are created at Obscura Antiques and Oddities.

That said,  I first feel the need to look back at the year that just was, 2010.  Offering up from our archives looks you could have seen if you had able to make it into the shop.  To save you from heartbreak let me first mention that the vast majority of what you are about to see has already been sold, at the end of the post I will annotate the few objects still available.

I think that it is appropriate for the first entry to be about the act of looking.  Whether it is an image of the eye itself , or the juxtaposition of competing gazes, lots of thinking and looking seems to go on between the objects at Obscura.

Have a look.

as promised, the few items still available are:   wooden cut-out of the chef,  coyote,  baby-head mask,  old lady-head mask, drunk monk hand puppet, crying white statue, and the mesh Oddfellow's mask with the bushy eyebrows

Hello from the Shopgirl

Welcome to the Photo Diary of the official, perpetual, "Employee of the Month"of Obscura Antiques and Oddities.