This is a fun assemblage, using an old liquor container, Mortimer Snerd, who was the second dummy of ventriloquist, Edgar Bergman. Edgar's first and most famous dummy was Charlie McCarthy. Featured in this assemblage shadow box, is Mortimer, with a photo in the background of him with Edgar and Charlie. In the shot glasses are pool balls.. 38 (symbolic of 1938, the first appearance of Mortimer Snerd.) and also pool ball number 1 with a vintage Charlie McCarthy child's spoon. Since Charlie was the first puppet dummy, it seemed to fit. The bird on top is just for fun, and since Joseph Cornell often used birds and shot glasses in his art, it seemed to fit too.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Mortimer Snerd W/Charlie in the style of Joseph Cornell
This is a fun assemblage, using an old liquor container, Mortimer Snerd, who was the second dummy of ventriloquist, Edgar Bergman. Edgar's first and most famous dummy was Charlie McCarthy. Featured in this assemblage shadow box, is Mortimer, with a photo in the background of him with Edgar and Charlie. In the shot glasses are pool balls.. 38 (symbolic of 1938, the first appearance of Mortimer Snerd.) and also pool ball number 1 with a vintage Charlie McCarthy child's spoon. Since Charlie was the first puppet dummy, it seemed to fit. The bird on top is just for fun, and since Joseph Cornell often used birds and shot glasses in his art, it seemed to fit too.
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