Doll’s Head Trail

            This post is not about Valley of the Dolls. No, it's about Doll's Head Trail - a distinctive art experience in Constitution Lakes Park, just outside of Atlanta.

            Located on the site of an abandoned 19^th-century brick factory, the nature preserve was bought by Dekalb County in 2003, and they began constructing trails. The Doll’s Head Trail itself is the creation of a local carpenter, Joel Slaton, who envisioned an art project created from discarded doll parts and other trash scattered around the site. For some reason, the site had been used as a dumping ground for years, and flooding also, somehow, produced more art objects - one source said from homes that were flooded. Slaton turned it all into a found art experience, and he encouraged visitors to make their own contributions, but only objects found on the site – not brought in from outside. As the sign on the trailhead says, “Litter makes the angels cry.”

 

            Here are some samples of what Kim and I saw:

             

Do you have a favorite?

Some of you may find these creepy. Perhaps, but they also say something to me about mortality - what Time does to us, and how there is a kind of beauty in what happens. A creepy beauty, perhaps . . ..