Through the waterways

Through the water ways

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Designed /11:05 PM

This is Luke.

Luke is a dollfie.

While I was in Japan, in Kinokuniya (which so happens to be seven stories high), I chanced upon a book in the art section which was about the art of doll making. I've always liked dollfies, ever since I saw the first time I saw one. I was absolutely enchanted by their fair flawless skin, their brilliant glass eyes and their finely sculptured features. So I picked up the book.

The book was filled with pictures of all sorts of dollfies, all with different clothes, each with a unique face and built. When I came back to Singapore, Oli showed me a couple of dollfies online, so I went to look them up on my own. I was amazed at the detail of their facial features, especially their eyelids. In fact, some of them had teeth!

But as I was looking through the book, one picture in particular leapt out at me.

It was a picture of a life-size dollfie, still unfinished and ugly, lying in the lap of the doll maker. It was still rough, and without hair, and its maker was leaned over it, working on it, filling in the details. So much effort and thought must have gone into making the doll! Every single dollfie goes through a process of being made: it has to be deigned, its core is cut out, its body is shaped, its joints are crafted and linked, its skin painted. Then when it's done, the doll maker clothes it and gives it a name.

I was impressed. I thought to myself: he must love his doll very much.

There is something else which goes through the same process of design. It starts of as a string of atoms: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, atoms that link together in a specific order to form amino acids, the most basic building blocks to a world of designs! As a single cell floats down to the womb, the chain continues to replicate and a body begins to form.

Every single person goes through a process of being made: a person has to be deigned, his core organs (the CNS, the heart and the bone are some of the first organs to form), his body is shaped, his joints are crafted and linked (yes, the bones take time to come into contact, even after birth), his skin gains its colour! And unlike a doll, a person can think, move as he pleases, feel sensations and emotions. He can grow, he can respond, he can live and can love. Not only are his physical features unique, but so are his personality, his quirks and traits and history.

If a dollfie, which can neither speak nor feel is so meticulously designed, what more a living breathing human being?

If a dollfie, which can't respond to its creator, is named and clothed, what more the person who responds to his creator?

And if a dollfie, though so carefully crafted is unable to love the doll maker which brought it to being, don't you think it's sad that humans who are given the capacity to love don't always love their maker?

I think it is.

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