Next Series: Toys and Scale

We're going to do a series on toys and scale (duration undetermined). Here are some of the inquiries and materials we will be addressing:

• Our personal histories with toys and scale.
• How social media such as Tumblr and Flickr legitimize play and scale as art forms (when documented through photograph).

• #sonnyangel #sonnyangelaroundtheworld

  A photo posted by Liina Koivula (@heartexpanding) on Dec 12, 2014 at 6:21pm PST

• Sonny Angel, cuteness, toys sold to and enjoyed by adults.
• Toys as evocative objects (Sherry Turkle).
• On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart.
• Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child by J. Allan Mitchell.
• Femme identity and reclaiming girlhood through dolls.
• Toys exposing the "thingness" of things through their non-productive aspects (which also sometimes makes toys scary because they assert agency not usually found in other objects such as tools; they have "a life of their own"; they exceed the purposes we set out for them).
• The father invited by his daughter to a tea party who crushes the miniature teacup in his big man hand: a humiliation!