The doll was my mothers as a child in Switzerland. my mums still alive but somehow this doll came to be in my basement. This is a typical swiss doll of the mid 1950s and i suspect beyond. In th 1950s anthropologists were still finding villages high in the Swiss valleys that had no communication with the lowlands and that practiced old ways and survived in a diminished gene pool. The dynamo was my fathers. he also is still alive. He was an engineer, socialist and humanist, a scientific realist who has since discovered a sense of spirituality. My mother was of Christian stock but sought her own spiritual path. They were/are both powerful people. My mother the spiritualist, my father the anti spiritualist. Both had/have light and dark aspects. Light can blind as much as absence of light. They separated 5 years ago. they have negotiated their own personal balance but i am the product of their experimentation. My Dad would mock spirituality so i hid mine from him and for a while, from myself. I am negotiating my own balance of light and dark, science and spirituality. So here they are on their thrones. The Queen and King of The Light That Can Be Dark And The Dark That Can Be Light. Incidentally, if you turn the leg of the king and hold his crown you will receive an electric shock.
JON WHITBREAD ART 
