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pa href=”http://www.studiokahn.com/”StudioKahn/a designs and manufactures emMetamorphoses/em, a series of three shape changing dolls that illustrate “Little Red Riding Hood.” The three dolls can nest, attach, fold and turn inside out to create many different combinations of narratives, not so unlike the concept behind Enzo Mari’s a href=”http://www.mcachicagostore.org/main/item_detail.php?pid=761cat=Kids”emFable Game/em/a. Swallowing and masquerading are the two primary motifs in the shape-changing qualities of the dolls (and the story, of course)./p

pBelow, the wolf is revealed when the sheep is flipped inside out. /p

pAccording to the studio, based in Jerusalem, “the project deals with the questions of identity and usability of the objects. Playing is a tool for asking these questions.”/p

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pEven better: the studio manufactures the dolls themselves from ceramic and silicon with a combined molding technology. Though they don’t take us through it step by step, they included plenty of pictures, which should serve as a good visual reference for makers: for example, note the temporary pour spouts made from clay and plastic in the image below. /p

pThere’s plenty more to observe and learn in their fantastic process images, posted just after the jump. /p

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