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The doll presupposes its animation, and these, decommissioned, await life mausoleic. Toys surveilled so under the guise of conservations eternal life they may never play again. Perhaps this why every Lankton press release reflects back on the past, to times of vivid scenes of famous friends spirited, Lankton's and other's photographs of the dolls from that time seem so much more interesting than them behind glass today, photography an elegiac art, these now dead bodies.
See too : Greer Lankton at Participant Inc , Nicolas Ceccaldi at Mathew