This doll was made for a sculpture final in the fall of 2023. I love toys, and I wanted to dip my toe into the world of toy design and fabrication by challenging myself to hand make a toy that could change expressions. Toys like this are not new, they have been made as early as the 1950s and probably earlier, but I was inspired by the 1990s “Emotions” face change toys by Irwin toy company. They were stuffed animals (a bear and a dog) with plastic heads that changed expression when you turned an object atop their heads (a bee and a bone respectively). Inspired by this design, I created my own version, this weird little monster clown guy whose expressions change when you turn his hat. The mechanism was difficult to perfect because I was sculpting it by hand, but I figured it out after a lot of trial and error. The interior head is sculpted out of oven bake clay, and the exterior head is sculpted out of air dry clay on a cardboard base. This project was my first (recent) foray into toy design and fabrication, and I consider it a precursor to my thesis, since it was the piece that made me realize that toy making was something I should devote more time and energy to.