"If you taught me how to sculpt, then who taught you?" someone asked me one day.
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I said with a shrug, "My mother? I started at four years old with PlayDoh. Perhaps, no one taught me."
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Certainly, I grew up with no great love of dolls. I never even knew that the figures I'd made for my whole life were dolls. I made them because I could. I made them move because Barbie couldn't.
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Thinking of that, I decided to follow up on the name which was given as Akagi Shigure's inspiration: doll master, Simon Yotsuya.
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You can find Simon's work here: http://www.simon-yotsuya.net/oeuvre/galerie0.htm Be sure to click on the little square Japanese worded boxes along the bottom of the page; there is quite alot to see.
