This piece was one of the first large sculptures i ever made, I made it first semester for sculptural forms.. The assignment was to utilize plaster in some way to make some sort of body form. I made the torso and shoulders out of plaster painted them and then drew on the designs in ink. I cast an old pair of boots to make the shoes. I used painted wire for the arms and for the legs i wrapped embroidery thread around wire. The head is also made out of wore and then filled with tissue paper. The hair is twine. The skirt is made out of an old t-shirt. The bow i found on the street on halloween.
With this piece i was interested in trying to play with the idea of what is considered beautiful. Today being very thin is considered beautiful, or at least that is what magazines and fashion has lead us to believe. In almost any clothing advertisement the women are tall and extremely thin and the clothes look good on them so then we feel that in order to be considered " beautiful" we too must be thin. People obsess over it , my mom my friends , even my 11 year old sister has asked me if she "is fat".
This figure is extremely thin , i sculpted the plaster so her ribs jut out unnaturally and her spine forms ridges on her back. She has spindly arms and stick legs. She is lanky and thin but is she beautiful. I Placed her in defeated position and made her so that if she was moved it would just slump over. I wanted to make this figure thin but also creepy and vulnerable to blur the lines between something that may be considered beautiful and something that is creepy and sad.