Zen Doll

ZEN DOLL Acrylic & Collage on Wood Panel | 9" × 12" | 2024 Ready-Made Series | Custom Framed

Sweet. Innocent. With a hard edge that was always there if you looked properly.

Zen Doll is a work from the Ready-Made Series — an ongoing body of three-dimensional paintings constructed from found and vintage objects that arrive already carrying history, already worn by the world, already meaning something before the artist touches them. The job is not to invent. The job is to listen to what the objects already know and arrange them into a truth they couldn't tell separately.

This one arrived in pieces. A chrome M from a RAM vehicle, found on the side of a road — already a letter, already a relic of something mechanical and discarded. A vintage doll's head, her blue eyes wide with the particular blankness of mass-produced innocence, her face marked with Inuit face tattoos drawn by hand — ancient ceremonial marks on a plastic face, the oldest human tradition of marking the body meeting the most synthetic possible surface. Dove wings collaged behind her, painted with the careful attention of a natural history illustrator — the universal symbol of peace and the divine messenger, spreading above a face that has been claimed by something older and stranger than either.

The letters spell ZEN. The paint drips cobalt blue below them like tears or like rain or like something that has been held in for a long time and finally released. The whole thing sits against a ground of deep, heavily textured black acrylic — the texture of it almost aggressive, the impasto marks surrounding the objects like a force field or a consecration.

Gothic punk aesthetic. The sweetness is real. The hard edge is also real. Both are true simultaneously. This is the Ready-Made Series exactly as it was always meant to be.

✨ About the Ready-Made Series

Inspired by the Dadaist ready-made tradition of Duchamp — elevated, personalised and filtered through a completely contemporary sensibility. Every work in the series is constructed from found and vintage objects, each one carrying its own history into the new context the artist creates for it. No two works share materials. No two works share meaning. Each is completely, irreducibly itself.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 9" × 12" original acrylic and collage on wood panel
• Three-dimensional surface — found objects, vintage doll head, dove wings, vehicle badge
• Custom framed — arrives gallery ready
• Signed and dated 2024
• Ships carefully packaged with specialist protection for the 3D surface
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Sweet. Innocent. Hard edge. All true.