The Original head was painted after my Sapphire doll. After I dropped and fractured it, I took it as a sign from the universe that this wasn’t the face White Peacock was supposed to have, and decided to paint an even better likeness of Sapphire for the second iteration. Her eyes became a little less ‘smoky’ on the second try, her chin is more heart shaped, and her nose bridge became a little thinner.
I think they look similar, but different, not just because of the subtle paint difference, but also because each porcelain head requires a significant degree of hand tooling, re-carving and sanding after it gets taken out of the mold. The details need to be carved back in by hand, because unlike silicone molds and resin casting, the rigid plaster molds can not tolerate ANY undercuts, so some fine bone structure details have to be simplified and covered up for moulding. Places like nostrils, mouth depth, ear canals and fingers on the hand, they all have to be closed up for molding, and then cut and carved back by hand. That’s why all my porcelain heads taken from the same mold, are actually one of a kind. The two are never the same, because each one has subtle variations of hand sculpted objects.
This second face of White Peacock has worked out very beautifully, and more true to the original than the first. I adore the first one, but I believe the second aligns better with her true identity and personality, and is indeed the one she was supposed to have. Some believe that there’s no such things as accidents.
