“A candy colored clown they call the Sandman tiptoes to my room every night, just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper …Go to sleep everything is alright”.  Roy Orbison “In Dreams”

This series from sculptor Richard J. Hinger, incorporates twenty works, each containing a ventriloquist dummy surrounded by various objects set into assorted vessels including hat, suit, violin, camera and guitar cases, suggesting a sense of journey. With the dummy such as Charlie McCarthy, Jerry Mahoney or Mortimer Snerd as the central character, each work invites you to speculate on its particular circumstances. At closer look it can be noted that each piece is named after a song by Roy Orbison, a unique songwriter who had a tragic life and was known for his melodramatic lyrics and masterful storytelling.

Hinger has used ventriloquist dummies in some of his earlier works and found the result to be “eerily provocative”, inspiring him to devote a series to them. He uses the cases as a vessel to encapsulate circumstance, emotion and tradgedy in order to tell a story.

      “I Close My eyes and I drift away….. into the magic night, I softly say….. A silent prayer…..  like dreamer’s do……

	UPTOWN - 2006 23″ x 16″ x 12″
	TWO OF A KIND - 2006 28″ x 15″ x 7″
	DREAM BABY - 2006 32″ x 16″ x 10″
	SLEEPY HOLLOW - 2006 50″ x 16″ x 7″
	RUNNING SCARED - 2006 24″ x 20″ x 7″
	PISTOLERO - 2006 29″ x 14″ x 12″
	OOBY DOOBY - 2006 30″ x 18″ x 17″
	ONLY THE LONELY - 2006 18″ x 18″ x 14″
	MEDICINE MAN - 2006 23″ x 19″ x 7″
	MEAN WOMAN BLUES - 2006 28″ x 18″ x 16″
	LOVE STRUCK - 2006 20″ x 12″ x 9″
	LOVE HURTS - 2006 22″ x 10″ x 10″
	LONELY WINE - 2006 31″ x 19″ x 7″
	IN DREAMS - 2006 34″ x 23″ x 11″
	GOOD TIME PARTY - 2006 33″ x 26″ x 10″
	TWINKLE TOES - 2006 32″ x 16″ x 10″
	CRYING - 2006 32″ x 18″ x 7″
	CRY SOFTLY LONELY ONE - 2006 15″ x 14″ x 10″
	CANDY MAN - 2006 33″ x 26″ x 10″
	CALIFORNIA BLUE - 2006 21″ x 13″ x 12″