Miss Murphy, was named for my mother-in-law. Her pieces are from materials I found in her house a few years ago after she passed. As I was putting her together and thinking of stories about the time spent with Jean – how she always made me laugh and how I always made her laugh too.
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was thinking of the crazy hair that she would have and as when I was building her skirt, I thought “Miss Murphy would certainly not go outside of the house without being properly accessorized” so I decided to give her a little hand bag.
Of course she still has some wild hair – that goes with her wild style. For more pictures of Miss Murphy visit my Flickr page.
I received a package one afternoon (a very large and heavy package – condolences to the carrier that had to bring that parcel) which asked that very question.
Had an amazing time working on him, decided what pieces to add to the box and then choosing the next person to send it off to.
When I’m out and about meeting with people, a lot of times people will speak about my robots as if they are alive – “He’s cute”, “What’s her name?”…truth be told, sometimes I think that they’re alive myself! I do see them come together in the disjointed pieces on my bench and find myself telling little anecdotes about them as I’m putting them together. If you’ve seen some of my pieces recently, you know I have been starting to put together biographies for all of my Shopbots. I see the personalities in each of them.
