Earlier this month, downtown Nanaimo residents may have spotted something out of place – something large and reminiscent of a bygone era.

And if they had, the object might have roused some forgotten memories of childhood – as any 16-foot-long doll lying abandoned in dirt and grass might do.

The doll sculpture is part of an ongoing exhibit at Vancouver Island University's View Gallery, and was modelled after a vintage doll that the artist, Heather Benning, used to "drag along everywhere with her" as a child.

Before the exhibit's opening reception, Benning, student volunteers and View curator and coordinator Chai Duncan propped the doll in three downtown locations to take photographs: along the shoreline near the Hullo ferry terminal; in front of a decrepit building that was once a spring

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