"For Lankton, dolls were more than just kitschy objects - they were powerful, emotional extensions of herself. "(My dolls) are all freaks. Outsiders. Untouchables," she once said. "They're like biographies - the kind of people you'd like to know about. Really interesting and fucked up." Lankton's dolls were born as much from necessity as from imagination. "She wasn't allowed to have a doll as a kid," Monroe tells Dazed. "So, she made them - first with flowers, then with socks."
"Then she realised she could bend hangers to create arms so that the dolls could move. Mostly, she just found objects like empty bleach bottles or soda bottles, which became parts of the dolls' throats. When Lankton worked on her dolls, she became completely consumed by the process, often forgetting to eat or sleep. Her dedication was obsessive. In just a few months, she could create dozens of them, each carefully hand-painted with surgical precision."
Virgil Ortiz creates biomorphic ceramic and Corning glass sculptures titled "Incubators," presenting hybrid fauna that will appear in the Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian through May 2026. Greer Lankton made dolls as emotional extensions of self, fashioning them from found objects and improvised materials to represent outsiders and untouchables; the creative process was obsessive, producing dozens of meticulously hand-painted figures in months. Coverage also touches on art crime, recounting an antiquities smuggler who reportedly removed thousands of objects from Egypt, and highlights varied cultural items like Indigenous glass art, AI-generated recipes, and contact-lens art.
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