Sonya Vengrova

This doll has been inspired by a scene I saw last summer in Vilnius at the central square. There was a little girl sitting on the shouldres of her father: she had very light blond hair, was wearing a frilly black dress and a bright and colorful amber necklace. The combination of a child's light skin and whispy hair, a black dress and bright firy amber looked very unusual and impressed me very much. "Baltic lady" is an image of that girl 20 years later.

The doll's necklace is real amber, bought at the market in Vilnius, Lithuania.