Daniel A.Gipson

I\'m a local artist in Berkeley. My mediums change about as often as my ideas. I draw, paint, write, design and repurpose. My newest passions are baby dolls I find abandoned at yard sales and thrift stores and re-birth them into the creepy-cute crawling dead. Underneath a stack of old toys at a yard sale or on a shelf at a thrift store, lay abandoned baby dolls that are tossed aside, used, abused and no longer wanted or loved. Then a magic man or some say mad man comes along and gives them a new beginning, a re-birth. During their meticulous transformation, under layers of paint, their new personalities are slowly revealed. Teeth start to appear, eyes go black as the night or shine white as the moon. The skin turns pale and rotten and black goo seeps from their nose, mouth and ears. A new hunger rumbles in their bellies for the taste of brains. The re-birth virus has been completed and they are now no longer forsaken bodies of plastic. They are now ankle biting, creepy-cute, crawling dead ZombabieZ! Upon becoming a ZombabieZ they are given a suitable name, place of origin and a short bio. Each ZombabieZ is hand painted, numbered and signed by the artist and comes with a re-birth certificate I also repurpose furniture and household goods such as vases, containers and candle accessories.