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Monday, April 23, 2018

The Three Graces of Spring



ABOVE: The dolls* play the Three Graces––
L to R: Penny Cooper as Aglaea, "Splendor", Red Hair Girl as Euphrosyne, "Mirth", and Spring Green as Thalia, "To Blossom"––
in their interpretation of the painting "Primavera" (Spring) by Sandro Botticelli, below.

*There are three dolls now. 
Red Hair Girl had chosen Penny Cooper to come live here, but then we (well, mostly me) felt bad for the doll who wasn't chosen. So she came too. Her name is Spring Green.

I worried three would be a crowd and kept Spring Green separate at first. Then bink suggested the dolls are like Orphan Black--a Canadian sci-fi TV show about a character who discovers she's a clone and has (at least) four sister clones––(all played by the wonderful Tatiana Maslany. I watched the first season and liked it a lot.)

In theory there could be two more Orphan Reds, but three is plenty for now--there're a lot of famous trios they can play.

Other toy re-creations of art: "toy tableaux".