Super Sculpey clay is a material I have never used before. Once it is rolled in your hands it becomes soft and I was able to sculpt it into a figure. I used an anatomy drawing to get the basic proportions correct for my miniature body. I wanted to desexualize the body so it has no obvious genitals. When placed inside the room the flesh colour didn’t work, but once painted black with tiny amounts of flesh colouring just showing it worked perfectly.
Gregor Schneider (2004) Die Familie Schneider [installation]
For the second body, I thought about the German artist Gregor Schneider who I wrote about in my dissertation. In one of the rooms for his installation Die Familie Schneider, there is a body on floor but what is strange is the way it sits upright with legs out straight. The face and upper body are hidden by a black bin liner. Under that bag is someone struggling to breathe or have they been dead for days? Schneider’s image of a living death has stuck in my mind and so the second figure I made in that strange disturbing position.
Bodies (6cm) covered in spiders web
