So I know I posted about this yesterday, but this picture has really been growing on me...it's way WAY too much orange cat, but it's so great at the same time. The "Bud" has been hanging out on the couch, but is so intense to look at. He's got so many of Buddy's features and yet has a fixed stare, deep and piercing... He's great and really weird at the same time.
I've had the experience twice now of making softies and had similar feeling both times when I put the eyes on. There is something about putting eyes on an inanimate object that gives it life, or even dare I say it...a soul. After I made the first one, a felt and fabric red elephant, I instantly understood the prohibition of some traditional cultures around making images or representations of actual life. The Amish don't put faces on their dolls and I would bet money that it's because someone one time put some eyes on a doll they made and said "Whoa!" After I put the eyes on the elephant, I kept staring into them and I got a little god-complexy like "I made this and it's looking back at me!" With "Bud", the eyes are really the most intense part and they just look at you, expectantly...
I've had the experience twice now of making softies and had similar feeling both times when I put the eyes on. There is something about putting eyes on an inanimate object that gives it life, or even dare I say it...a soul. After I made the first one, a felt and fabric red elephant, I instantly understood the prohibition of some traditional cultures around making images or representations of actual life. The Amish don't put faces on their dolls and I would bet money that it's because someone one time put some eyes on a doll they made and said "Whoa!" After I put the eyes on the elephant, I kept staring into them and I got a little god-complexy like "I made this and it's looking back at me!" With "Bud", the eyes are really the most intense part and they just look at you, expectantly...
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