While Goodwill shopping, I saw a few wine bottle openers in a basket of cutlery and noticed they looked like figures with outstretched arms, so I thought I could make some Dadas with them. Here a two of them, not quite finished, but you get the idea. The one above has a brass butterfly attached as wings. The base is a strange wood and tin thing--I cut it in two and used the second piece as the base for the second dada. Everytime I'm out at Goodwill, I look for similar openers. They come in various shapes and sizes, and seem to be made for dada making!
I really got into making Dadas after reading the book by Opie and Linda O'Brien, "Who's Your Dada: Redefining the Doll through Mixed Media". These bottle opener dadas were so much fun to make that I decided to take a weeklong workshop next year in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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