This is a mixed-media assemblage using a found doll, reclaimed materials, wood, cardboard, and metal. It is accompanied by a poem as part of the haunted "Tales from the Dolls" series.
This piece recreates the back area of a familiar bakery environment, built from salvaged objects and handmade structural elements. At first glance the scene reads as an ordinary workplace display at one of the 'Nothing Bundt Cakes' stores: a cheerful counter, menu boards, and a uniformed employee preparing for service. The central figure — a doll representing a bakery worker named Taylor — stands posed, presenting a new flavor of cake that she has made.
Closer inspection begins to fracture that normalcy. A poem disguised as one of the menu boards describes a private tasting event arranged after repeated customer complaints, implying a solution that is less accommodating than advertised. The seasonal flavor “Blood Orange” appears among otherwise standard offerings.
Around the workspace, details quietly contradict the setting: a concealed blood-stained cake, a handsaw, pliers gripping a tooth, and severed doll limbs partially hidden in a mixer behind the employee. What initially reads as a bright commercial interior gradually reveals itself as a darkly comic narrative about service work, resentment, and the literal incorporation of feedback.
